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They brought you flowers Val

The blooms weren’t what you had specified but

There they were: flowers and

People whose lives you touched and

Who, certainly, touched enlivened enhanced yours

The woman beside me nodded through

Her tears when I asked her if she

Knew you and I envied her for having had

The chance to be with you in your new milieu

Your chosen paths and spaces and I

Wondered had you also talked to her?

I was not able  to share with them my thoughts

And stories about you it was

Another’s words whom I read that night

But I know you knew what I wanted to

Say: that I haven’t strayed too

Far from your admonitions that night

We trudged through the streets of Ilustre

To seek one’s happiness to serve people well

To aspire for wisdom courage and

Resilience and to not to be too afraid or

Angry to forget joyfulness for it isn’t just

All about deprivation and struggle but also

And perhaps more so about hopes and dreams 

And loves desires and having something

Someone to look forward to whether it is humba or

A particular someone a group a unit a community

And Val they came and they brought you flowers