Janet Brice Parker
Rita Diane
Seventy years ago
your seven year old life
came to an end
and I felt like mine did too.
I was only twelve
when you passed from
This world to the next
We were best friends
companions who thought
We’d be old ladies together.
But it wasn’t to be.
I’ve asked God
to let me see you first
in that place of eternal
life and light.
It will be a place of joy
and we’ll forever
join your black and my white
hands together
and pick up
where we left off
where time never ends.
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