from now till the hour of our death
(a geechee for this womans' spirit)
this is ageechee for this womans spirit..... a geechee cause she is why i am who i am... she is why im is... who im is..... this is a geechee cause i felt your spirit leave that room.... and it changed my fuckin life.....i felt it so powerful that i stopped workin you for a minute ms lady... but started again cause i saw ya baby in the corner.... wishin you'd come back...
this is a geechee for this womans spirit.... cause you is as important to me as.... my sweet old mama was.... cause through you i sent her my best.... that through your skin..... i felt hers.... hopin she was proud of me.... givin her the message that her child... her legacy.... her work..... was not in vain..... that with every press upon yo chest.... i wanted to save you... just as much as let you go...... that i aint try to keep you from mother god..... but only to ease your familys pain... cause yo spirit was too strong to have lived a life of regret.....
this is a geechee for this womans spirit.... for the look in her daughters eyes... for her curled in the arms of another...not wanting to see you thaat way... fo pain laid raw.... for life laid bare.... for understandin...... we born..... we live.... we die....
all i can hear is the screaming.... the look in that girl's eyes.....
" "Lettie.... get up lettie".... "oh lawd i heard them children yellin but i just aint come"..... "Nanny!!!!..... nannnyyy please".... "oh god help her".... i fuckin fell off the porch for that spine board....
and then her daughter... momma?".... "momma?"..... "momma nooooooooooo!!!" ... awakened from a disturbed sleep.... she blindsighted by a beloveds last moment....yet her image pervades... i learn later she was an only child.... god i just so much on my psyche right now....
