පුංචි පෙට්ටිය

Someone has died,

who will never see

the black joylight expand in her mother’s blue eyes.

Who will never grasp a pinky,

nor be danced up, down and around and lullabied all night.

Someone who will never come to realize

that her Dada’s palms aren’t dirty, they’re just brown.

Who made HER mother, HIM father, then broke their hearts.

Who is their shooting star, glimpsed only once.

Someone who will never laugh, or play, or care …

Praying that little box into the earth,

Rev. Peters asks forgiveness for his faint faith.

He thinks of the life of pain Someone was spared.

“A female still born child of Egbert Stairs (colored) & Catherine Cochran his wife (white) was buried in All Angels’ churchyard, November 18, 1849”—from the church

Reverend Walter Peters, All Angels’ Church,

දිනමිණ- වසත් සුළඟ 05/12/2017