©2003 by Susan Noyes Anderson, His Children, Vantage Point Press
(Photograph ©2003 by Anita Schiller)

Her eyes look past the window pane,
beyond the shutters and the years.
She hears the laughing children, sees
but does not see them through her tears.

A ray of sunlight warms her cheek;
her lips know well the taste of rain.
The window of her spirit opens
wide upon this daughter’s pain.