Death Came twice this year and it might as well be three, 2020-2021 are the two hardest combined years to date.

First my uncle on halloween, the baby of the family gone too soon. The closest to us all taken away. Or at least this is how it felt.

Second, my mother’s second brother gone, cooler than him you could not find, strictly roots & culture all the way.  A miracle in every sense of the word. Four years in and we knew he would make it despite what doctors would say.

Words cannot express only… the songs that they love. The children they leave behind will be forever changed, yet their presence their impact I know, will always remain.

Then without warning out of the blue a cousin a few years older than me too, looses her life to a sickness I may not even know. To loose three family members in the span of two years feels overwhelming for anyone, two losses on my mom side of our family and one for loss for my dad.

No wars exist where they live, no tragic hit and run, or crimes took place. It was sickness  that took them so quickly and that is why it hurts triply. The pain they experience I may not ever know.

God how to tribute each of their lives I ask and I pray. Give our families the strength to go on and prosper each day because once they left this earth we all felt alone.

Three bright and beautiful lights extinguished far too soon, bells ring in heavens room, butterflies signal their return to our earthly home perhaps we can honor them with each new moon.