By Brent Yergensen
He sees her in everything--a mother, a wife.
To give him life, she took to strife.
Does he see what she did in friendship abound?
For all his life he'll feel her ghost round.
Who is the haunter that he later understood?
She saw all things he one day could.
Whatever her effort for his behalf,
Was her beautiful haunt as more than life's half.
And now a word about her eyes.
For his life her's was filled with cries.
On his behalf, she wouldn't dissolve,
In labor to assure his resolve.
Eye contact with her is a permanent memory,
For only without her can he truly know misery
Brent Yergensen (Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln) is Chair of the Department of Communication at The University of Texas at Tyler. His research has been published in Review of Communication, Communication Quarterly, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Journal of Communication and Religion, Film & History, Atlantic Journal of Communication, Journal of Religion, Film & Media, Northern Lights, Canadian Review of American Studies, Journal of Visual Political Communication, Explorations in Media Ecology, Journal of Religion & Society, and other scholarly journals and book anthologies.
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