Life, Death, Wedding, Miracles
Life, death, wedding, miracles
she was not cancer, she’d not enchanted death.
she’d still smile - with loose teeth, with clinging roots.
dreamy-eyed, a wedding to plan, mind engaged.
a forthright goal despite the odds, felicitous.
dress wrapped around her fading petals. mirth,
spread on a banquet table, with precious
invitations, all who would come, none forced back.
for she’s like her feral cat, feisty & fearless.
fresh air, like a bouquet, seemed to sweep the church.
a wrist corsage bravely held her hand.
her eyes resolute, passing the baton
to her only daughter, God’s mercy in battle.
this was the final day, she’d gather her breath,
take a huge whiff, of this planet’s oxygen.
next day, spirals, giving her two more months.
God favored her so, he graciously gave her christmas day.
*died two days later, told me of her new birth.
ipad doorbell, announced her new day.
i stood there with heart pounding,
knowing we had shared precious prayer.
Kim Rodrigues © 2017
*True story. I prayed with faith for my cousin. God gave her another year, when the doctor’s had already told the family to say goodbye (miracle #1).The day after she died, my ipad rings like the sound for facetime, which sounds like a doorbell. I open my ipad and it says it’s her birthday, but my ipad was not set up for her birthday and it was not her earth birthday. (#2)
I kept saying, “I don’t get it!” Chills. One more thing happened one year later, not as dramatic but clear to me. (#3)
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