Lines To Honor Bobbi Kristina Brown
by Ronald Jones
Despite your sorrow, your grief,
your smile stayed sweet
gave warmth as
you maneuvered through the
world, a solitary, inner orphan
since that awful time a few years ago
The heavy pain you carried
that wouldn't let you be
The unanswered conundrums
that resisted parsing for one so young
Yet all along, there was the inherited voice
lying quietly within you
Like a sleeping bird's
awaiting the dawn
Desiring to sing again
in splendorous tones
A new day's joyful awakening
February 3, 2015