The Butterfly

The Butterfly

The butterfly is the hope

that the transformation

that loss brings into our life

can result in something different,

something beautiful.

We may not be the same

at the end of the journey,

but we have grown

and are able to see things

that we could not before.

~Author Unknown

Little Angels

Little Angels

When God calls little children

To dwell with Him above

We mortals often question

The wisdom of His love

For us heartache compares

With the death of one small child

Who does so much to make our world

Seem wonderful and mild

Perhaps God tires of calling

The aged to his fold,

So he picks a rose bud

Before it can grow old

God knows how much we need them

And He takes but a few

To make the land of heaven

More beautiful to view

Believing this is difficult

Still somehow we must try

The saddest word mankind knows

Will always be "Goodbye"

So when a little child departs

We who are left behind

Must realize God loves Children

Little Angels are hard to find

~Author Unknown

Nothing Loved Is Ever Lost

Nothing Loved Is Ever Lost

Don't think of them as gone away,
Their journey has just begun.
Life holds so many facets,

This Earth is only one.

Just think of them as resting,
From the sorrows and the tears,
In a place of warmth and comfort,
Where there are no days or years.

Think of how they must be wishing,
That we could know today,
How nothing but our sadness

Can really pass away.

And think of them as living

In the hearts of those they touched...
For nothing loved is ever lost,
And they were loved so much.
~Author Unknown

Pregnancy & Infant Loss Remembrance Day

We Walk

We Walk

We walk in their memory, for they never could
We walk in their memory, as their families should

We Walk for the memories they did not e'er make

We Walk in the hopes, that our hearts will not break

We Walk to heal heartache

We Walk to heal pain

We Walk...

and know someday, we'll see them again

~Dawn Both-Kim

(Bereaved mother of Marrina and Ella Grace Kim)

They Will Forever Be Pure And Perfect

They will forever

be pure and perfect

As would be

a budding flower in

the vast garden

of our hearts

An everlasting bloom

of what might have been

Rooted deeply

in love and sorrow

We shall

remember them

~Dawn Both-Kim

(Bereaved mother of Marrina and Ella Grace Kim)

(Poem for the back cover of the 18th Annual Walk to Remember Program, '10)

The 18th Annual Walk to Remember

National Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month

During the month of October each year, hundreds of parents, health-care professionals and friends across the United States will be participating in a "Walk to Remember."

These walks are dedicated to the hundreds of thousands of babies that die each year through miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth or early infant death... and are a beautiful memorial to those babies.

In 1993, the Honorable Dennis Gorski, Erie County Executive, gave a proclamation that the month of October would, each year thereafter, be recognized as National Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month in Erie County.