Zuri Williams

Words can never express the sadness I have since your left. You was my sister truth and I miss you with all that I am. Aunt V, I love you, thank you for everything.

keep the babies close, though their spirits know, their cognitive minds strive to understand - you know, i know, there is nothing to understand, her circle has been completed on this plane of existence and she is birthed into another - now, in this plane that we still travel in, just keep the babies close - i know, you know . . .

We love & joy at our swollen bellies-moan at the gift presented at birth, swoon at the scent of new birth... sleep with one eye open, one ear pressed to their breathing... we swoon some more at all their firsts and marvel at their dna similarities and are surprised and humbled at their youthful maturity... then we wonder, worry & pray at their demand for independence knowing we've done all we can do- it is then that we realize... "they are completely in God's hands" and hope for our plan of...

V.,
I was heartbroken to hear of your loss. I only met Zuri a couple of times, as you know, but what I remember now is her energy and her plans. And now I think of her children, her siblings, and you...and all those unfulfilled plans. Such a harsh learning, this place of life and death, but, knowing you, I am sure that you are moving into the light and knowing "all is well" in ways that usually surpass human understanding. Be well and, as I know you are doing, help her children to be...

Aug. 17, 2006
Dear V. I have been moving things around my apt. all day thinking about you and my sister Rochelle, you are both mothers to which the unthinkable has happened -- lost children. I would not want to be the poem you are in now, unable to move outside the lines that Spirit has written you into and is writing for you, Akin and Oya, and Zuri's babies. It is something designed specifically for your family, nothing I would wish on anyone, a moment that only your bloodline owns,...

ZURI,
so here we are, connected thru water, blood, x's and o's, and the
unnameable...presence. Some of us, more quiet than usual these days
since you made your transition . . . listening in the silence...speaking in altered rhythms... Loving you beyond time.

Venela, Once again i would like to express my deepest appreciation for being the person you are. I know your daughter, Zuri is in a good place, and is watching over you and her children.

I blinked...and there I was at an an absolutely wonderful funeral service wondering if I could have been the Double Dutch King. I am glad to have been there:-)