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For Brianna (Free verse) by MaliqaTara
Baby girl
Sometimes it feels like forever
Since I've seen your smiling face
and some days it hurts so bad
That it could've been yesterday
that you left us all...
Angel,
I remember red-gold hair
in an untidy ponytail rippling down your back.
I'd scramble to fix it
You were always so disheveled
but so cute nonetheless
I remember
Baby doll,
Weekend mornings
wakening to find you
Scuttling into my covers
too tired to care
I held you 'til you demanded
Not asked;
always commanded
You little brat,
That I get up and help you
pick out your clothes
I remember
little child,
Of brushing those silk rouge curls
thinking all the while
That you were my child
my little bee
The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil;
Yea, it is even he that shall keep thy soul.
Psalm 121
And I hope that you're with Him
I hope that he loves you as much
As I should've
As much as I could've
As much as I would've
baby girl, if I had only known...
You were sick so much
but never did you give up
Never did you cease to fight
They drugged you so bad
Little girl,
sometimes I didn't even know if it was you!
Honey,
I'm writing this and crying
sobbing for your memory
which everyone should have
Everyone should know.
Just a baby
Only six
And some cruel fate could take you from us?
But don't you worry
You live on.
I pray
Everyday that I see your pictures
On my wall
On my shelves
In the box that I keep of your things...
You just turned eight
Did you have a good birthday?
Did you get those wings that you worked
so hard for?
White with sparkles,
I know that's what you'd want.
And all that plays in my mind
is Jenna hitting the floor
and my daddy
Uncle Danny
Danny McCoffee
running to her
Then me
And mom holding you...
your poor little
Broken body
wrapped in a blanket
blue
white
pink
yellow
Somehow that matters
You were just my baby
such a little girl.
And when someone says Angel
You're the first person I see
standing there
defiant little grin...
And I know that you're happy,
you chose your own fate
and would never have left
If you knew that you weren't
going to be better off
with Him to hold you
And Im trying bebe,
you know that I am
But sometimes the memory
Of all that you were
and all that you could have been
Make me long for the days
Of Barney and Rugrats
and glitter and nailpolish
and rocking you to sleep in my arms.
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