Your Obituary

Today I wrote your obituary

Everyone said it was beautiful 

But I find it scary

How could you be gone but I'm still here? 

When I began it was in you

When I first moved it was in you

When I first cried out

It was for you

Now I'm here looking for you

But Everytime I find you 

There's nothing for me to hold on to

You were that voice late at night

When I was just beneath my desks light

Telling me the stories I'd heard time and again

At one time you were the one I struggled from

Then you were the one I fought and won

Then I returned because I didn't want to fight but mend

We found a way that was our own

Far away from your childhood home

Far away from everything we had known. 

What if we could do this right? 

No matter how much it makes us cry? 

What if love can transcend all time? 

What if I am yours and you are mine? 

What if God can remove the generational curse?

 Of daughters discarded rediscovering their worth? 

Of mother's unloved who are given new birth? 

What if the story isn't finished yet? 

What if there's more to redemption?

Now that we'll never hurt each other again. 

Forever your daughter, forever your friend.