Please remember Josh

[Inanna]

Dear Mel & Michael,
It's 1pm and I have been saying some prayers & crying many tears. I have lit many candles and am burning incense. My two little girls have said some prayers for your family too. I am imagining a wet cold day in Melbourne. I am imagining just how unreal this all must feel for you.

I can't believe that now I am not listening to your story of excitement rather than imagining your devastation.

I feel I know Josh - I just can't believe this has happened.

I want to say something that means something. But I can't Mel for my heart is broken with yours.

I found this poem - and we read it for you, for Michael and for Josh...

The Water Lily
by Henry Lawson

A lonely young wife
In her dreaming discerns
A lily decked pool
With a border of ferns,
And a beautiful child,
With butterfly wings,
Trips down to the edge of the water and sings:

"Come Mamma Come!
Quick! Follow me -
Step out on the leaves of the water lily!

And the lonely young wife,
Her heart beating wild,
Cries, "wait until I come, until I reach you, my child!
But the beautiful child
with the butterfly wings
Steps out on the leaves of the lily and sings:

"Come, Mama come!
Quick follow me!
Step out on the leaves of the water lily!

And the wife in her dreaming
Steps out on the stream,
But the lily leaves sink
And she wakes from her dream,
Ah, the waking is sad,
For the tears that it brings,
And she knows 'tis her dead baby's spirit that sings:

"Come, Mamma come!
Quick! Follow me -
Step out on the leaves of the water lily...

Please know I am here. Please come to us for comfort. For support. For strength.

All my love.

Goodbye sweet Joshua - fly free...