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Music: Lament for the Death of Owen Roe O'Neill. By Turlough O'Carolan. Sequenced by Barry Taylor

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Abuse Although Consumed by Fury, You Still Loved Us At Odds of the Night My Sister Irene and I Caitlynn David2 Evil Has No Easy Explanation Felicia2 I Had a Rough Time with Three Kids by Myself I Hate You, Dad, for What You Did It Wasn't Over When You Died Memories of Life at Home The Pain Will Never Go Away What Do You Do When Your Mother Is Crazy You Told Me in a Dream You Always Loved Me Breaking Up After You're Gone Although Our Love Is Over, It Remains Goodbye, My Love, the Object of My Fury Hold Me to Your Willing Heart How Did I Lose Your Baby Blue Eyes I Didn't Get a Chance to Say I Love You I Do Not Mean to Put Our Love on Hold I Don't Understand What Happened to Us I Feel as Though a Dam Within Me's Burst I Feel as Though My Heart Lay Bleeding I Guess You Just Don't Know How Much It Hurts I Know I Didn't Do So Well I Must Accept But Can't What Cannot Be I Want You Back Now that You're Gone In Leaving You, I Turned Away from Passion My Pride Is like a Castle in the Sand Night Comes for Me Throughout the Day Our Love's a Place Where I No Longer Live Sometimes Dreams Are Better Off Not Real Thank You for the Happiness We Shared The Apartment Is Dark When We Broke Up, You Said You'd Always Love Me Why Did He Stop Loving Me Why Did You Change You Had Me for a Night, Then Turned Away You Left Me, but You Cannot Leave My Heart You Say You Want to Be Just Friends You Used to Make Me Swear Never to Leave You Death Birthdays Do Not End with Death Bobbie Jo Can't Be with Us Buddy Buddy2 Children Who Die Are Not Really Gone Dan Phillips Lived a Golden Life Dear Son, I Cannot Speak Death Can Also Be a Dance Death for One Ought Not Mean Death for Two Each Moment of Love Remains like a Song Ed Was a Black and White Paint Quarter Horse Every Time I See My Pansies Father's Day Without You Is like Music Frosty Died Last December Her Life Was Not as Glorious as Some Here's a Little Ditty How Might a Spirit Settle in the Wind I Am the Mirror of Our Love I Cannot Think You're Not Alive Somewhere I Didn't Get a Chance to Say Goodbye I Feel as Though My Heart Must Stop with Pain I Have One Living Son I Miss Your Laughter, Fun, and Gentleness I Need to Say Goodbye Although You're with Me I Think of You as Watching from I Want You to Be Happy When I'm Gone In Eighth Grade My Best Friend Passed Away In Memory of Those Who Died Lee Beaumont Died at Fifteen Life Is Beautiful, My Child Margarita Matthew2 Mom Lived Her Life for Love of Friends and Family My Mother Passed Away on June the Fifth Neither Mourn nor Celebrate Nicole2 Nora Not a Day Goes By that I Don't Think of You On the Death of a Teacher One Night I Saw Aaron One Year Ago You Died, and Still We Mourn Recently I Dreamed I Talked to You Rest in Peace, My Loved One, Rest in Peace Sarah2 She Died Soon After Many Years of Pain Some Losses Seem to Augur Endless Night Souls Do Not Disintegrate and Die Such Love of Life Cannot So Quickly Fade Tarah and Serrin Have Not Passed Away Tears Flow Down to Endless Streams of Sadness Thank You for Helping Me to Die Thank You for Leaving Me Your Son Thank You for Naming Yours after Our Own Thank You for Your Recent Contribution There Is a Fructifying Sort of Grief There Is a Residue of Hope There Is No Difference in the Way I Love You There Is No Threnody for Utter Darkness Theresa This Truth Is like a Sea That Has No Shore Those Last Few Years of Helpless Pain Though This May Be Our Christmas Last To a Stillborn Sister To Lose Someone Who's Loved You All Your Life To Say Goodbye's Impossible Forever Tyler Understand Death Has No Use for Time We Are Not Your Children We Lost You Just Two Years Ago Weep, Weep Within Me, Darling When Death Must Come at Christmastime Where Did You Go, My Lovely Ones You Did Not Merely Die, but You Were Murdered You Had the Gift of Happiness You Never Thought that It Would End This Way You Taught Me How to Love You Divorce and Broken Families Hardly a Day Goes By that I Don't Think of You I End My Letters, "Thoughts, Prayers, and Heart" I Wish You Could Have Custody of Me Last June My Parents Got Divorced Love Undoes Its Heritage Quite Slowly Love Was Not Enough for Us Mommy, Please Don't Worry My Heart Is like a Symphony There Is No Mountain Higher than the Wall Thirty-Five Years Later He Was Gone Twenty-Two Years Later They Were Dead We'll Go On, After You Friendship I Would Not Be the Sun to End Your Night Just as a Wave Is Lifted by the Shore Let Me Be the Bandage for Your Bleeding Love Is Patient with a Life Goodbye and Separation After Love and Fear, There's Pride After You Leave, I Will Become a Tree Although We Have to Be Apart Every Day I Think of You and Miss You Farewell, My Friend and Confidante Goodbye, My Darling Foster Child Goodbye, My Lover and My Friend How Often when Two People Fall in Love I Know It's Only Half a Year I Miss You on Your Birthday I Miss You Terribly This Day of Love I Live Behind Forbidding Walls I Miss You Though I Have You Here Beside Me I Think About You Most of Every Day I Wish that I Could Be with You In Daylight You're a Haunting Melody In Many Ways, It's as if I Last Saw You It Sometimes Seems So Foolish to Persist More Love Is in My Heart than Any Heaven My Tears Are Not of Loss Our Love Is Torn by Miles, Not by Choice Pretend This Poem Is Me, and I Am with You Simple Things Remind Me of Our Love The More I Am Away from You There Are No Bars to Our Embrace This Valentine's I Wish that You Were with Me Time and Space Are Dark Grey Clouds To Our Loved One Far Away We Choose to Stay Together We've Just Been Friends, and Now You're Going When at the Same Time One Feels Joy and Sorrow When We're Together Times Are Good Illness Anne (Autism) I Pray for You and Wish I Could Do More Mental Illness Doesn't Touch the Soul O Lord, Help Me Be a Burden  Sorrow May the Heart Sometimes Deface (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) Sorrow May the Heart Sometimes Deface (2) (Spinal Muscular Atrophy) The Gift of Life Is Never More or Less (Terminal Illness) There's Beauty in the Barest Breath of Sunshine (Depression) When Life Becomes a Sea of Pain  Your Legacy Must Be Both Love and Fear (Breast Cancer) Love Although You Are with Someone Else Beautiful Eyes, Beautiful Face Chrysanthemums Are Clear in Morning Air Even Though We Fight a Lot, I Love You Every Time I See You I Remember Everything I've Done, I've Done How Can I Have a Fight with My Best Friend I Don't Know How We Get into These Fights I Find My Happiness in Loving You I Know that You Don't Feel for Me I Love You as a Valley Loves I Love You Even Though I Know I Want to Make You Smile as You Make Me I Want to Say I Love You on Your Birthday I Wish This Poem Were Pixie Dust I Wish You Were My Valentine If I Had Married You Instead of Her Last Night, Today, Tonight I've Thought of You Love Me the Way I've Long Loved You Marriage, as a Choice, Requires Choices My Anger Stands Between Us like a Wall My Husband Cheats. I Look the Other Way My Love Is Something Separate No Matter What Our Troubles, I Still Love You No Place to Put My Paramour Our Love Has Slowly Gone Downhill She Harbored No Illusions The Chance of Happiness Equals the Risk of Pain The Time for Love Is Now Fast Disappearing There Has to Be a Way Across These Mountains This Will Not Work if You Don't Want to Try We Separated Many Years Ago When Love Is an Affliction You Don't Love Me, But Ah! Do I Love You! Miscellaneous Bones and Fire (The Holocaust) Foster Children Move from Place to Place Joy Requires One to Be Awake (Depression) More Pain Cannot Be Wrung from Those Who Wait (Missing Persons) No Christmas for My Children (Homelessness) Raping Me Was Fun for Him So Did You Die of History Suicide Can't You See? Don't You Care I Don't Want to Be Coy The Night I Tried to Kill Myself There's No Understanding What You Did Though I Chose Death Instead of Pointless Pain You Killed Yourself and Didn't Think of Me