Memories

No one else was there
Just my munin’ina and I
She cried, I cried
I couldn’t do anything to help her.

Mum and dad had fought
Left us alone as each wondered their way
But now we were here, alone
As she lay in my arms crying in pain.

I didn’t know what was wrong
She was too young, I was too fragile
I could see she was dying, dying
They couldn’t, they had left us alone

Her little hands were becoming cold
Her crying was slowly fading
She was going to leave me too, alone
Like the wind she was passing away

I was there when she closed her eyes
She was in my arms when she breathed her last
I couldn’t even help her, I couldn’t
I miss you Nokutenda.

I wrote on her grave:
“May your soul Rest In Peace. We were always alone in the world but now we are alone in separate worlds”