Nonna Francesca Gangemi
5/12/1918-18/8/2019 In Loving Memory of Her Nonna my love, why did you leave so soon? It makes me sad that I can’t hug you one more time Or see you smile. I missed you every day since after I left you. Now you left me and there is no end to my mancanza. The love that makes me sad that makes me miss that makes me know Somewhere in heaven Your smile, just for me your laugh, you know the one you saved for me And all your other ones for everyone else Beam now Like the sun sets behind Palinudo’s verde hills full of bright lights and celestial colors that remain long after the end of the day. As certain as I am our eyes are brown I know your soul, your spirit became forever parts of the village we all love. And when my feet first arrive in Calabria next, I will breathe in your love and feel your spirit catch my hair with the wind. And that missing of you will become sacred in your ethereal presence. Together we will walk on dirt roads. Pick perfect apricots from the tree up the street. Keenly clean each corner of your home and kneel close to the kitchen fire and cry. I miss you forever. Now our family mourns, devastated by our loss. I mourn you with my heart in my eyes and tears dripping down a face that hates to cry. I need to cry, for you my nonna. You know I love you so much. I know you held on so long for us. Thank you. Ti voglio tanto tanto tanto bene I love you like the air in Palinudo- Reviving, refreshing, restoring. Death frees in ways we alive can never understand. Be free in love and peace. Be free sweet nonna and please will you make me minestra when I get to heaven first thing? I Love you forever, Jessica
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