Simply put, I wanted to write this to my grandmother while I still have the chance for her to hear it.  Sad part is, I don’t think I have the strength to actually read it to her.  Such is this life of mine……

Gone, Not Forgotten (Ode to Lenore Parris)

Watching you wither away
Like a flower
Without water

Feeling the pains of your kin.
Your son, my aunt.
Your next daughter.

Every day of my life
You have been here
Standing aside

The thought of that soon ending
Tears me apart
So deep inside

I know your memory’s gone
Yet I am still
Not forgotten

Need that to always remain
As our world turns
Dark and rotten

Like an apple left alone
First things were sweet
And then they changed

Everything’s foreign now
All of our norms
Have rearranged

At your side I’m thinking how
Such a woman
With a big heart

Will be taken from my world
From the failing
Of that big part

My cries have become reserved
As I’ve grown up
Over the years

Yet thoughts of that final time
I shake my face
To hold those tears

Wishing I had the power
To reverse time
Or take your pain

I can’t stand to see you so
But sitting still
Drives me insane

You’ve given so much to me
And never asked
For fees returned

You’ve said that I’ll always have
If you can give
That lesson – Learned

You’ve raised me into a man
And I just hope
I’ve made you proud

Need you to know I Love You
Hope those words ring
Within, Aloud

Love throughout the Years