Death Happens
Miss Thelma.
Granny.
My Mother, My friend.
Who taught me to, stay strong, love long and be kind.
and told me don’t pay talk no mind.
Always loving, giving, and sometimes cursing.
Granny, who handed out Mr. Freezies by the twosfoursixeights,
To the children off her balcony at Trethewey.
Granny was a survivor.
Granny, survived burying her threemonthsholdbornaddictedtoccrackgreatgrandson.
Miss Thelma was a fighter.
Confronting Mr. Death.
Three months later.
Her face with the smile gone, her body weariedwartornherheartbroken,
Ruby Veronica Ellis, fought her last fight.
God has taken her home.
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