ODE TO A DISTINCTIVE MOTHER, JUST DEPARTED.

ME THINK I HEARD HER SAY , ”FAREWELL MY DEAR PEOPLE, AND TO MY CHILDREN , MOST OF ALL, O !”

THEN SHE LET GO, A BREATH !

WITHIN WHICH BEFORE, SHE COMPOSED A THOUGHT, SUCH AS THE LIFE SHE HAD LIVED. AS A SIGN OF THANKS AND GRATITUDE.

LIKE A VESSEL MADE OUT OF WOOD

SHE WAS BERTHED IN ACON LIKE JULY1921

AND NOW SHE IS GONE INTO HER GLORY, ON OAK LIKE, MAY 2021.

SMART FULL CENTURY CONCEIVED, TOWARDS, AS PER GIFT, PERHAPS.

SHE GREW UP AMONG CHRISTIANS, PEACEFUL, AND PARENTS OF DISTINCTION.

SHE HAD 7 CHILDREN OF HER OWN, ALL CARED FOR, IN FULL MATURITY.

SHE LIVED , A PEACEFUL HAPPY ATMOSPHERE; AGES TIDAL, A SUFFRAGETTE OF CHOPPY MOMENTS

SHE LAID TO REST, GREATER OFF , AND MOTHERS OF DISTINCTION, BEFORE HER GONE.

THERE AFTER, WHEN HER TIME HAD COME TOO WEAK, ALSO SOFTER, AND DISABLED, HER CHILDREN,AND PEOPLE COMPOUND

OLD AND SMALL, INCLUDING GRAND TODDLES, ALL HAD GATHERED AND CHEERED.

‘GRAND-MA DRINK’ THEY Said. ALL IN ONE VOICE !

ME THINK I HEARD HER SAY IT IN O0NE BREATH, OF LAST;

“I LIKE WHAT I SEE , BUT STILL I MUST GO.”

MAA YAA! THEY ALL CHOSE, TO LIKE, TO CALL HER, AS NAME !

Madam Comfort Asapaah Yaa Ofosua of

WORAWORA PENTECOST LODGE !

They almost all, forgot till her last breath her preferred name to end (29th MAY 2021) MAA YAA .

I THINK I HEARD IN HER WHISPER, “FAREWELL MY CHILDREN;” AND THEN SHE LET GO A LAST, TEPID, BREATH.

Burial @WORAWORA, 31ST JULY 2021

TO HAD GONE GENTLY INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT, IT SEEMED.

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