Poem by Maura James
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MELISSA
With Melissa there is no longer pain.
With Melissa there is no blame
With Melissa there is no hate.
For she is now beyond heaven’s gate.
With Melissa there is no evil.
My Melissa jetes in angelic fields.
My Melissa is not hurt by negative remarks.
Only her friends and family left with broken hearts.
My Melissa is in the presence of a forgiving Father,
For Melissa she desires only our love for one another.
My Melissa is dancing even more then before
With plies and glissades across heavenly golden floors.
From Melissa are the memories we will never forget.
Through Melissa is the strength we carry on and yet,
My Melissa is in the Father’s embrace,
As we boldly come before the throne of grace.
For Melissa there is now happiness, peace and joy.
And Melissa the angels she will now employ!
As Melissa’s work on earth is done,
The heavenly host of heaven resounds.
My Melissa her soul is now at rest.
And Melissa no longer has to pass any test.
My Melissa now sees everything so clearly.
And prepares for the arrival of the ones she holds dearly.
We rejoice evermore that she is finally home
And our comfort is only through God alone.
He holds every tear that we cry in his hand,
Through every heartache God understands.
God speaks words of comfort in my times of grief,
Assuring me that he’s in control and I must believe.
He is close to the brokenhearted as the Psalm says,
I’ll reach out to touch his heart each and every day.
Thank you for trusting me with her for 28 years,
I laugh when I think of her humor through tears.
She brought so much joy to every ones heart,
And our faith in our God will never depart.
October 16th, 2006 at 11:43 am
Wow, I can feel her pain.
October 16th, 2006 at 6:59 pm
It’s distressing to see posts from the Titus fans who only state negative items regarding Melissa when these people who have family and friends who love them and would miss them just as Maura grieves for her own child.
Regardless of what one has heard which is mostly speculation as to how she lived her life, none of that warranted the cruel and savage killing perpetrated by Craig and Kelly.
As a father of a young lady myself who’s world would have crumbled if this happened to my her, I for one will most definitely celebrate the moment sentencing is passed to these two who deserve the ultimate which would be life without possibility for parole. Death would be the easy way out for them.
They should live their remaining days incarcerated so that they can reflect on their lives and the lives of others who were so insignificant to them. All that will remain is the shell of a once massive pair of egos. The once seemingly caring visitors will eventually move on and cease contact only to be conpletely forgotten. They will die alone as Melissa did. Her fear was short however their fear will now last an eternity.
October 16th, 2006 at 9:17 pm
MAURA .. YOUR POEM IS FROM YOUR GRIEVING HEART A GRIEVING HEART THAT VERY FEW OF US KNOW OF THE PAIN THAT
YOU HAVE EVERY DAY…
YOUR BELIEFS IN GOD IS HELPING YOU TRUE THIS ..
YOU SHOW NO HAT RAGE TO ANYONE THAT HAS POST NOTHING BUT NEGATIVE WORDS ABOUT YOUR MELISSA .
YET YOU APPEAR ON THIS SITE WHIT YOUR LOVE FOR HER .. AND WHIT WORDS THAT WILL TOUCH THE HEARTS OF EVERY PERSON THAT HAS POSTED A COMMENT AS WELL AS THE ONES JUST PASSING BY READING IT …
YOU ARE A WOMAN I ADMIRE A WOMAN WHIT RESPECT FOR OTTERS AND A WOMAN THAT DESPITE ALL THE PAIN THAT HAS BEEN INFLICTED IN YOUR HEART , STILL KEEP THE REALITY OF THIS SITUATION CLEAR TO ALL OF US .. AND THAT IS
” THAT NO MATTER HOW CRUEL PEOPLE CAN BE ABOUT THIS CASE .. IT DOSE NOT HELP BRINGING MELISSA BACK OR HELP THE SITUATION TO EVERYONE INVOLVED IN IT ”
YOU ARE LEFT WHIT THE MEMORIES OF A MOTHER AND WE ALL WILL RESPECT THAT .
.! EVEN THE ONES THAT DO NOT HAVE ANYTHING GOOD TO SAY WILL RESPECT YOU AND IF THEY DON’T .THEN THEY HAVE NO RESPECT FOR THERE OWN MOTHER AND
THEN THEY SHOULD BE NOT ALOUD TO POST ANY CRUEL WORDS FROM THIS POINT ON … AND SHOULD GO AND ARGUE WHIT THEMSELVES OR IN THERE OWN LIFE !!! .
THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS POEM TO US
AND THANK YOU FOR REMINDING US ABOUT THE GRIEF OF A MOTHER
A GRIEF THAT ARE OWN MOTHERS CAN FEEL AS WELL IF HAPPENED TO THEM..
AND IF WE DO THINK ABOUT OUR OWN MOTHER GOING TRUE THIS .. WE CAN THEN FEEL THE PAIN IN YOUR SOUL.. AND IT BRINGS US TO TEARS…
I AM SORRY !! I AM SORRY THAT YOUR DAUGHTER WAS TAKEN AWAY THE WAY SHE DID ..
I AM SORRY THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT HURT WHIT THERE WORDS STILL NOW , WHIT OUT THINKING FIRST ..
I AM SORRY THAT YOU WILL HAVE YOUR FIRST CHRISTMAS WHIT OUT YOUR DAUGHTER , AS I KNOW YOU BOTH HAD PLANS TO GO CHRISTMAS SHOPPING WEN SHE WAS TO ARRIVE HOME ..
I AM SORRY FOR YOUR TEARS YOU SHARE IN THE DARK WEN YOU ALONE IN YOUR BED .. MAY YOUR DAUGHTER BE NEXT TO YOU AND WIPES THEM AWAY GIVEN YOU HER WARMTH SPIRIT WILE EMBRACING YOU ..
MAURA I AM SORRY FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO TAKE YOUR PAIN AWAY ….
LOVE ALWAYS ROSETTA
SUPPORTING YOU TO THE VERY END
http://www.rosettamortati.com/melissajames.html
October 16th, 2006 at 11:21 pm
Powerful, heart wrenching words spoken for one who can no longer speak for herself…
Shalom , Maura, to you and for Melissa.
d*
October 18th, 2006 at 5:00 pm
I have always maintained that Melissa didn’t deserve to die. However, a junkie, hanger-on that did nothing with her life and ended up making her living by doing a Kato Kaelin impression should not be put on any pedestal.
October 18th, 2006 at 5:39 pm
EM,
Your comment is ridiculous…First you say she didnt deserve to die, and then legitimize her killing by calling her a junkie and a hanger on, etc…as if those traits are plenty good reasons to murder…
That’s about as disingenuous as it gets…
By your logic then, I suppose you think C and K should be put on a pedestal for ridding the world of one more junkie and hanger on who “did nothing in her life”…
You are a sick, twisted freak…
Step into Melissa’s mother’s shoes, and read the words you wrote…if it was you in her place I doubt you would feel the same way.
d*
October 18th, 2006 at 9:14 pm
Hey Em,
There are many reformed Junkies that today make/and have made huge contributions to humanity. The white trash meth head, or gang bangin ghetto boy that kill others for that high is not whom I’m speaking of #1, and Melissa I could almost guarantee you was not in a class of those I mentioned. No matter how bad “they say” she was, I sincerely believe she had quality’s that seemed reform quite likely. And by the way, those are so far alot of rumors.
October 19th, 2006 at 8:10 pm
WELL EM .. YOU HAD TO JUST RUNE THIS PAGE TOO BY YOUR NEGATIVE REMARKS ..
I HAD ASK PEOPLE ON THIS PAGE TO NOT POST ANYTHING, IF YOU HAD NOTHING POSITIVE TO SAY…
THIS PAGE IS FOR MELISSA’S MOM AND THE PEOPLE THAT DO RESPECT HER AND PEOPLE THAT RESPECT ALL MOTHERS OUT THERE INCLUDING OUR OWN …!!
GUESS YOU HAVE NO RESPECT FOR YOURS .. CAUSE IF YOU DID YOU WOULD HAVE STOP AT didn’t deserve to die.!!!
MELISSA IS ON A” PEDESTAL ” AND SHE WAS PUT THERE BY HER MOTHER AND ALL OF US THAT BELIEVE THAT NO ONE SHOULD BE MURDER THE WAY MELISSA HAS .
ALL VICTIMS OF MURDER ARE IN A PEDESTAL FOR THE COURAGE OF WHAT THEY HAD TO BEAR WILE BEING MURDER .. !!
THIS PAGE IS NOT FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU SO YOU CAN GO AND POST YOUR NEGATIVE COMMENTS ON ALL THE REST OF THE PAGES … I HAD ASK ON MY POST ABOVE NOT TO POST ANY NEGATIVE COMMENTS !!! .. AND I AM NOW GETTING VERY MAD AT PEOPLE LIKE YOU THAT JUST SIMPLY CAN NOT UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS POEM TO MELISSA’S MOM AND HOW SHE NEEDS TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT DO RESPECT HER AS A MOTHER GOING TRUE THIS PAIN ..
HOWEVER YOU NEED TO GET OFF” YOUR PEDESTAL”.. AND START RESPECTING MORE THE VICTIMS FAMILY IN THIS CASE .. AND MAYBE RECONSIDER WHAT YOU WRITE BASE ON WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT SOMEONE THAT IS NO LONGER HEAR TO TALK FOR THEMSELVES.. !!
AND BY THE WAY HAVE YOU BEEN IN HER LIFE TO KNOW IF SHE DID ANYTHING WHIT IT ?
WERE YOU WHIT HER FOR 28 YEARS?
YOU HAVE THE NERVE THE CALL HER A JUNKIE ???
WOW IF YOU CALL SOME ONE THAT! AND YOU DID NOT EVEN KNOW HER FOR 28 YEARS OR LESS. I CAN JUST IMAGINE WHAT YOU CALL PEOPLE THAT ARE IN YOUR LIFE !!!
I AM ASKING ONCE AGAIN TO NOT POST ANYTHING NEGATIVE IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ANYTHING GOOD TO SAY TO MELISSA’S MOTHER !!! THANK YOU ROSETTA!!!
October 20th, 2006 at 3:56 pm
EM from Tampa: If there was ever one place for compassion and discretion, this page was it. Now that you have soiled another human being’s life memory for her family on a public forum, kindly not reply and wait to flame me on another page. Trust me, there will be more. Even I know where to draw the line.
October 20th, 2006 at 6:27 pm
Guys!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please remember - no matter what someone does in their life - NO ONE DESERVES TO DIE AT THE HANDS OF ANOTHER!!!!!!!
There is no need to throw all this garbage out. Once again, this takes the blame from C and K and throws it on the victim in this case! Melissa DID NOT DESERVE TO DIE IN THIS MANNER!!!!!!!!! No one does! No matter what they did in their life!
Craig and Kelly deserve the same that they did to their victim! Melissa was someone who, as it seems to me, just wanted to “make something of herself” and unfortunately she took the wrong path to getting there. No one really knows why she took this path, but they should NEVER put her down for it. C and K KNEW how much she wanted to “make it” in the industry and took advantage of it.
Craig and Kelly who took advantage of someone who wanted the good life.
STOP making Melissa the bad guy in this case. Again - no matter what she did in her life - she NEVER deserved to die like this.
C and K……………you need to have justice served to you just as you did for Melissa. God have mercy on your souls!!!!!!!!!
October 22nd, 2006 at 6:28 pm
Maura,
Your words bring tears to my eyes. You are so strong and I know without our father, and each other we would never had made it through the loss of her beautiful soul. Harsh words may come across and make us feel hurt and tears may fall from our eyes, but they can never take the fullness she gave our hearts. They can never take the memories we made, or the laughs we shared. I love you and I know we will make it through this. Melissa is in God’s beautiful, soft, comforting hands. I miss her smile, her voice everything, but we must be thankful for all she gave. EM you are truly a sick person, and I pray that you will find softness in your heart. To everyone else, your kind words are forever remembered, thank you for all of the support you have all shown… Melissa I love you keep on shining girl!
October 24th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
You people are really stupid!!!!If this girl(well known as the getta around girl in the fitness worlld)Melissa James was so great and did this and that why on earth was she mooching off Mr.Titus and MRs. Titus for? You sit there and judge these two people as if you all were god, well for god’s sake I hope you do not go to church and if so hipocrites be sure to sit next to the holy water so when your ass catches on fire you will have a chance to put yourself out. This girl was a known drug user and dealer. One of my good friends met up with her in Vegas on a Olympia Weekend and she propositioned him with drugs and sex for money. So dont sit there saying all this negative shit about the TItus family because ” the pot can’t call the kelttle blackass”. And where was this supermom at when she kicked Melissa out of her house? Oh yeah she is just playing this pity for me game to sell her story and make money off it. What a sick bitch! You should have been a mother a long time ago and told your daughter it is not nice to sell your ass on the street and to mooch off successful people. I can only hope you do not have any other kids. And stop stealing other peoples poems and subbing words and calling it yours!
October 24th, 2006 at 5:50 pm
Says you…so what…you cant substantiate a word of what you are saying…this is the internet, remember?
God forbid you have to ever walk in her shoes…
If Melissa was still on this earth, she would have a wonderful slander suit against you….then again, you probably have more hot air and blind sychophantic loyalty to creeps like CT than money…
but alas…Melissa is dead, and the evidence says your “Mr. Titus” is culpable.
d*
October 24th, 2006 at 11:43 pm
FLEXINGJAMIE WHAT TYPE OF NAME IS THAT ?????
OHH YEA YOU MUST BE A ASS S*** LIKE TITUS
HEY FLEXING BOY IF THAT IS WHAT YOU THINK OF MELISSA . DOSE THAT GIVE YOU THE WRITE TO TALK LIKE THAT ???
LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING FLEXBOY YOU SMALL MINDED BOY. WHATIS WITH YOU AND THE FIRE COMMENT? DON’T LIKE THAT, YOU SICK **** YOU ARE .
“A LITTLE MAN “.. KEEP TALKING LIKE THAT GOD WILL PAY YOU BACK . DID MELISSA DESERVE TO BE MURDED THE WAY SHE DID??? IS THAT WHAT YOU ARE SUPORTING???
. HEY FLEXJAMIE YOU MADE MY NIGHT THAT NAME I CAN JUST PICTURE YOU IN MY MIND WHAT IGNERANT FOOL FLEX.
HEY DONT WORRY YOU SIT AND JUDGE MELISSA LIKE IF THAT WAS HER LIFE AND YOU ???
DO NOT DO ANY DRUGS ???? YEAP!! OK!!!
YOU PROBALEY GOING TO TELL ME TAHT YOU WROTE THAT POEM HA??
OR MAYBE YOU WILL USE IT TO GIVE TO ONE OF YOUR MANY GIRLS THAT YOU SCREW OVER …
JSUT SO YOU CAN LOOK LIKE YOU ARE SUCH A ROMANTIC *****
WHATS WITH YOU AND THE POEM? ARE YOU NEGLETING MOTHERLY LOVE???
.I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO HEAR YOUR NEXT COMMENT FLEXY NOW WE CAN ARGUE THE CASE ,LIKE ADULTS IF YOU ARE ONE..
BUT TRY TO TYPE THINGS THAT ARE NOT AT A LEVEL OF A 10 YEAR OLD .. (WELL NOT EVEN A 10 YEAR OLD WOULD TALK THE WAY YOU DID SOOO, I DONT EVEN KNOW IF I SHOULD COMPARE YOU TO A 10 YEAR OLD , MAYBE YOUR FIREND CT.. THERE YOU GO!!
P.S YOU PUT HER MOTHER DOWN LIKE THAT.!!! GO PUT YOUR OWN MOTHER DOWN…. LET’S C IF SHE LIKES THAT?? RELAX
YOU FLEXING YOUR BRAIN TO MUCH IT IS GETTING SQUASHED!!!! DO YOU EVEN HAVE ONE TO TALK THE WAY YOU DO???
October 25th, 2006 at 12:25 am
WELL WELL .. SOME ONE IS UPSET ABOUT THERE SO CALLED FRIENDS MAKING MORE TROUBLE AS THEY SIT IN JAIL…
CALM DOWN FLEX MAN .. OR BETTER YET BOY IN THIS CASE BY THE WAY YOU HAVE THE NERVE TO POST YOUR NEGATIVE COMMENTS ON THIS PAGE WITCH I ASK PLEASE NOT TO DO …
THIS PAGE WAS FOR MELISSA’S MOTHER .. ( YOU WANT TO CREATE YOUR OWN PAGE ON THIS SITE SEND YOUR COMMENT TO THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE SITE AND LETS C IF HE WILL POST IT )
AND FROM THERE YOU CAN WRITE YOUR SELF ALL THE COMMENTS YOU WANT ….I AM SHORE YOU WILL HAVE PEOPLE POSTING THERE’S MAYBE THE FRIEND THAT WAS ” SO CALL”
PROPOSITIONED FROM MELISSA)
HOW IS IT THAT YOU COME OUT OF NO WERE AND MAKE SUCH A ANGER COMMENT ?
WHAT GOT YOU UPSET?
THE FACT THAT THINGS ARE GETTING WORSE FOR YOUR FRIEND OUT OF HIS OWN STUPIDITY? SO WHAT DO YOU DO ??
YOU GO BASE ON WHAT MELISSA’S “WAS ” ACCORDING TO ” YOU ” AND YOU JUST THINK THAT IT IS ACCEPTABLE FOR HER TO END UP THE WAY SHE DID?? BY MAKING A COMMENT LIKE THAT YOU ARE DISRESPECTING THE FAMILY OF THE VICTIM AS WELL AS ALL FAMILY’S THAT HAVE LOST THERE LOVED ONE THE WAY MELISSA’S MOTHER DID …
SO EVEN IF SHE WAS WHAT YOU SAY .. LET ME ASK YOU THIS ..
WHAT WOULD THEY SAY ABOUT YOU IF THIS APPEND TO YOU ? AND YOU WERE THE VICTIM? AND THINGS STARTED COMING OUT ABOUT YOU ? HA?
AND THEN YOU HAVE YOUR MOTHER SIMPLY POST A POEM TO DEAL WHIT HER PAIN
TO THEN HAVE SOME ONE LIKE YOURSELF SEND SUCH A POST ABOUT YOURSELF THE WAY YOU DID .. HOW WOULD YOU FEEL ABOUT THAT? OR YOUR MOTHER??
YOU SAY:
I hope you do not go to church and if so hipocrites
AT WHAT POINT IN THIS POST PAGE OF MELISSA’S POEM ANY OF US INCLUDING MELISSA’S MOM HAS BEEN A HYPOCRITE??? PLEASE EXPLAIN??
YOU SAY:
be sure to sit next to the holy water so when your ass catches on fire you will have a chance to put yourself out.
SO WERE YOU PLAYING MATCHES WEN YOU WERE LITTLE WHIT CRAIG TO MAKE SUCH A NASTY , MEAN FULL, STUPID COMMENT LIKE THIS?
WHAT IS WRONG WHIT YOU??
ARE YOU THREATENING PEOPLE WHIT FIRE???
YOU BETTER BE VERY CAREFUL THE WAY YOU SAY THINGS IF YOU ARE A FRIEND OF CRAIG .. SOME THINGS WILL NOT LOOK GOOD WATCH WHAT YOU TYPE FLEX… EVERY LITTLE COMMENT DOSE GET CHECKOUT AND ANALYZED …. BE VERY VERY CAREFUL….!!! YOU MAKE ME WONDER FLEX………. NOT A GOOD THING TO SAY………………
I AM NOW SPEAKING TO THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THIS SITE TO PLEASE TAKE OFF THIS POST OF FLEX AND X IT OUT .. THERE ARE WISHES OF MEISSA;S MOM AND ALL OF US THAT THINK THIS IS NOT APPROPRIATE ON THIS PAGE … PLEASE !!!!
AS FAR AS YOU FLEX ……….
COMMENTS WILL ALWAYS BE MADE AND NEGATIVE ONES TOO.. BUT THERE IS A LIMIT TO SOME THINGS YOU SHOULD NOT SAY WILE THIS CASE IS STILL GOING..
THE ONLY PERSON THAT IS GIVEN SUCH RESPECT TRUE THIS HORRIBLE TIME ARE THE FAMILY OR MELISSA INCLUDING HER MOTHER .. NOT ONE POST FROM THEM DEGRADING ANYONE OR BEING CRUEL TO ANYONE …..
…OR FAITHING BACK TO ANY NEGATIVE COMMENTS .. YOU NEED TO THINK BEFORE YOU TYPE AND POST YOUR COMMENTS ON THIS PAGE !! DON’T TYPE OUT OF ANGER , AND WHIT ONE TRACK MIND… CAUSE IT WILL STEER YOU WRONG MOST OF THE TIME .. IN LIFE ITSELF !!!
ROSETTA
October 25th, 2006 at 11:20 am
To flexingjamie
MAY GOD TRANSFORM YOUR HEART
YOU SAY THAT WE ARE STUPID
IF IN GOD THEN LET US BE
THEY SLANDERED HIM IN LIKENESS
BUT WHO WON THE VICTORY?!
YOU SAY WE JUDGE THESE PEOPLE
GOD AND MELISSA ARE STILL AT THIS SCENE
GUIDING THE ROAD TO JUSTICE
HIS TRUTH WILL SET US FREE!
YOU’RE HOPING WE DON’T GO TO CHURCH
FOR HYPOCRITES WE ALL MAY BE
WE INVITE YOU TO GO WITH US
GOD HAS ROOM FOR ONE MORE YOU SEE!
THE HOLY WATER WILL PUT OUT THE FIRE
THE FIRE OF HELL FOR SURE
UNLESS YOU TRANSFORM YOUR HEART
THAT’S WHERE YOUR HOME MAY BE!
YOU SLANDER ONE WHO’S GONE AWAY
HER VOICE IS OURS TO PLEA
A MOTHER DEFENDING HER PRECIOUS CHILD
GOD’S REWARD IS HIS COMFORTING!
YOU REALLY DON’T KNOW THE FAMILY
YOUR WORDS CONFIRM THAT FACT
FOR IF YOU DID YOUR HEART WOULD BREAK
TO SEE THE PAIN AND SUFFERING WE FACE!
YOUR WORDS REVEAL THE FRIENDHSHIP
OF THE ONE OF WHICH GOD HAS SPOKE
A LIAR FROM THE BEGINNING
A MURDERER OF THE SOUL!
WE KNOW WE ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS
OUR FAITH WILL SEE US THROUGH
MAY GOD TRANSFORM YOUR HEART
KNOW WE WILL ALWAYS PRAY FOR YOU!
October 25th, 2006 at 11:40 am
TO MELISSA AND HER MOM
Draw your strength from the Lord and from His mighty power.
(Eph 6:10)
Rescue me, God, from my foes;
protect me from those who attack me.
O rescue me from those who do evil
and save me from bloodthirsty men.
As for me, I will sing of your strength
and each morning acclaim your love
for you have been my stronghold,
a refuge in the day of distress.
O my Strength, it is you to whom I turn,
for you, O God, are my stronghold,
the God who shows me love.
(Psalm 59)
No trial has come to you but what is human. God is faithful and will not let you tried beyond your strength; but with the trial He will also provide a way out, so that you may be able to bear it.
(1 Corinthians 10:13)
O Lord, my strength, my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress!
(Jer 16:19)
May these Scripture Passages comfort you in this heartbreaking time you and your family are going through!
October 25th, 2006 at 11:25 pm
Wow, there are some sick, sick people out there. Just as sick as Titus and Ryan. You’re no better at all. When your loved one is murdered or raped or your family is violated in any way, when hardship hits your pathetic little lives, we’ll see just how much compassion is left in the world for your kind. Probably not much at all. Truely disgusting so-called human beings.
God bless the victim’s family. SHE is what this is all about.
October 27th, 2006 at 7:43 pm
Flexing Jaime is simply an attention whore!