Category : Poems

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I awoke from a dream 
the other day
it wasn't a normal 
dream for me
and I woke up in a
 cold, cold sweat
because I'd had an 
epiphany

The foresight to which 
I would foresee
took my breath away, 
and no matter how deep 
of a breath I gulped
 the anxiety became 
urgency

This feeling that I kept
 was the feeling one gets
like a baby needing
 it's nursing,
still I chuckle inside
 while I pushed it
to the back of my mind 
and went on about my day
 as nothing

towards the end of the week 
I was knocked off of my feet 
with the ringing of the phone,
It was my mama to say
"I had a heart attack
that day..
luckily I wasn't alone".

After this call
 I would sit and weep
 for the many years 
I had given her
adolescent grief

If only I could turn back 
the hands of time
I'd give her a reason
to be proud she's mine 

Now I replay my 
thirty six years in life 
to figure out
 how it all flew by

And as I follow the deaths
 through our generation tree
 yep, 
the next is my parents..
and then will be me