Love Poem: Funeral Home Scene
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Written by: Njeri Hunjeri

Funeral Home Scene

On the day of her daughter's burial 
She requested to see the body

The family's decision was to discourage it
She was already in deep gripping sorrow

Her blood sugars were out of control 
Her depression would need counseling

But she had too, she had to see her daughter one last time
She stood next to the coffin and looked at her daughter's lifeless body

"My daughter," she talked to her daughter
"I love you
I raised you and your siblings as a widowed mother
The hardship and suffering I went through
Is nothing compared to losing another of my own
Lord, what wrong did I do to deserve this? "

And collapsed next to the coffin