Granny




Somedays I'd wake up and call you at the crack of dawn..just to hear your voice....

Other times I'd call you from one of the many cities I was visiting for work.

You'd always ask if I was tired...if I liked what I did and how long I was going to be in this city...

I tried my best to make you laugh...telling you that one day I was going to make you get on the plane with me....you'd laugh..because you knew and I knew you'd never step foot on a plane.

On Sundays Id talk to you after I watch Joel osteen deliver one of his many sermons...oh how we loved his inspirational messages. I remember the last tine we spoke...you were watching Bobby Jones. You sounded so
tired and I asked you again if you really were awake...

Had I known you would not be here with me today I would have stayed on the phone with you forever...never letting you go....just making you laugh over and over about boyfriends (yours not mine) and how many
times Renee would be calling you today.....

You held your pain and just how truly tired you were in...you never let on to me just how tired you were. I wish I heard the exhaustion in your voice....

I would have told you how much I loved you over and over..how your life propelled me to succeed...your life urged me to do more and be more and better and better and yet maintain my gratitude an humbleness along the way.

I would have hopped on a plane to you instead of some city where I knew know one and loved no one...I would have ran to you..arms outstretched dem
anding you hold me tightly and desiring to sit on your lap just one more time....I would have addressed you as my granny..not just granny but my granny...

My 
Granny......my life will not be the same and yet my life would not be what it is now without your presence..

Thank you for loving me...loving the motherless, fearless child from the time she was not yet able to fear life....thank you for waiting at the gate for me on my very first plane ride of my life....at such a very young age...you inspired my journeys without even knowing it...my 
granny I love you....

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