Valentines Day is celebrated with hearts of every kind,
There's paper hearts and chocolate hearts
and hearts that speak our minds.
It is a day to express our love from deep inside our soul,
To acknowledge loved ones in our life and let our feelings show.
Now this day will be special in yet another way,
It's been proclaimed, in our Country, CHD Awareness Day.
On this day we will honor those born with their hearts broken,
The world will know of their plight, our silent thoughts now spoken.
We will remember loved ones, lost to CHD.
In our souls and in our hearts, forever they will be.
To those who continue to fight each day we are filled with admiration,
Your courage, faith and love for life deserve this celebration.
We also want to recognize, honor and give praise,
To those who keep our hopes alive with their kind and caring ways.
The nurses, doctors, and researchers are part of this day too,
For the many hearts that still beat on, we give our thanks to you.
A day of hearts it truly is. Hearts of red and gold.
Now add to it a brand new symbol, another heart to hold.
Please remember on this day, those with hearts not perfect,
And everyone who loves someone, with a congenital heart defect.
...Dolly Lee
*Note: I found this poem on a Congenital Heart Defects Message Board that I used to frequent.
I was told my youngest son might have a CHD. I have since found out that he is perfectly healthy,
but those few months of not knowing were the scariest of my life.
In those months I read posts from parent's whose babies do have CHDs.
They are the strongest people I've ever come to know.
Some of those babies have had their defects repaired and are now living perfectly normal lives.
Others lost thier fight to survive. |
