Goodnight, Poem Mother -
A Poetic Life Tribute for Maya Angelou

Goodnight, Poem Mother


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Memorial Tribute about Maya Angelou

Goodnight, Poem Mother
 My world stopped for a moment
 Hearing of your loss

And the only witness to this silence?
 The pondering beats of my heavy heart
 Burdened by sadness…
 Having hoped for more time
 To have received more words of beauty from you

Yet my mourning quickly reflected back…
GRATITUDE
 How could it be?
 That my sorrowing thoughts
Had returned so quickly the ripples of hope?
 
I had to smile upon further reflection
 This shouldn’t be surprising!
 Of course it would be so!
 
For Dear Poem Mother,
 Your words have always been ones of consolation
 And now, they not only belong to this earth…
 Hereafter they will bless the eternities

You are not gone…
 You’ve simply gone on…
 On to God- and on to the greater truth
 May peace be yours- always
 Dearest Poem Mother

Upon this earth you have experienced
The lonely depths of agony
 Suffered from raw injustices
 Endured the weeping…and the mocking…
 Been wounded by abuse…and by scorn

You had your voice taken from you
 As cruelly as was your innocence!

Fools they were!
 Did they think that the stolen soul
 Couldn’t escape? 
Couldn’t heal?

For does not all weeping
 Echo upward?
 Does not the quivering voice
 Still speak?
 Cannot the mouth that utters despair
 One day shout out hope?
 Cannot the bruised and bleeding soul
 Ever mend?
 Broken hands
 Begin to write again?
 And new dreams be awakened
 Through this healing?
Does not a bird still sing
 Simply because it has a song?
 Cannot the cruelest cage
 Eventually lose its hold?
 
You taught us so gently and so humbly
 How forgiving ourselves and others
Choosing to seek for deeper love and joy
 And ignoring the inferior emotions
 Were the keys to our freedom…
 Just as they had been yours

And so, your writings have mentored us
 You have gazed your smile of acceptance upon us
 And in the gentle timbre of your voice
 We have heard the words of truth and strength

You encouraged us to dream
 To create
 To be tender
 Prompting us to find the courage
 To be unafraid
 Unwavering in our artistry
 Present and purposeful in our lives
 
You were my Poem Mother…our Poem Mother
 Not the only mother we’ve known
 But a mother just the same

In my words…and in our words
 May there always be
 A touch of your grace
 And your goodness
 
That just as any loving mother’s actions
 Will influence future generations
 May your compassion and wisdom travel on with us
 Blessing us both in the present and in the future

For we will remember you always
 And we will do so…
 With a sense of deepest GRATITUDE

GRATITUDE to YOU

 OUR
DEAREST POEM MOTHER




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