Don't cry

To Evi

Don't Cry

Don't cry my friend

If you're unhappy with long and painful sighs

Don't lament the end

for ends are always new beginnings.

Don't feel sorry for the past

Do learn, we need to learn fast.

the way to amend bad ends is to make amends.

...and move on.

 

To Jeannette

Little Girl

You have a little girl

such a bright and happy little girl.

Do teach her well and she will grow

to love you so, basking in the warm glow,

of love and loves greatest rewards

 

Try too hard to hold her in her grasp

and she will go

Try to hold her too hard

and you will never know, why you lost her.

 

Chris Holte, 1982

In the early 80's I tried to help a woman and her child who lived in East Germany, Dresden. I believe this poem was written thinking of them.