Thursday, March 10, 2011

Six Years Ago Today....

Beautiful Marla
Beautiful heart
Laughing spirit
Intelligent soul....

all you had to offer...
to your gorgeous children
your patients
Your friends
What a healer you were...

How strong and determined...
rising from the poorest Bronx projects...
where you told us everyone was like family...
Meeting Gary when you were still a child...
and keeping him in your heart
until he was ready to become fully yours.

And you traveled to California
and made a beautiful family...
including me, your loving sister in law.
All the great times we shared...
laughing with our adorable babies...
through camping trips in the snow...
to camping in the mud...
...and laughing...always laughing...
Beautiful Marla.
I think of you every day...
twice a day during gongyo's silent prayers
and I raise a grateful prayer
for having known you
and become your sister
and loved you
and
love
you
so.

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