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PROMPT 27 ANGEL OF INSPIRATION


Ten years ago Mom was killed in a tragic motor home car accident.
At the wrong place at the wrong time. Her favorite song, "You are
the wings--beneath, not sure of the complete title. But the message was clear
to her children. Sunday was a remembrance of Mom. Both her children
recently had tattoos put on their shoulders. The only tattoo's either would
wear. Angel wings: Your are my inspiration Staci Jo, her date of birth
and the day she was killed. And yes she was killed by an insane driver
trying to commit suicide driving ninety miles plus head on into her
Motor home. Mom and her two young children in the car driving behind
saw it all. About Staci and what she was about. Both her and her husband
college graduates.Washington State University where they met and Master's
at Boise State. Since her husbands dream was to be a triathlon athlete and so
what did Staci do? "I have the means to support us so for three years you
can live your dream. Then it is reality. Standing watching her children
now grown and both at Mom's college at Wazzo released balloons in the air.
I wrote my poem:

To soar
to seek
embrace the sky
Alas no wings have I
Her walk so gentle
As a baby bird in flight
Her voice so soft
A mere whisper in the night
No more beautiful
Woman I must say
than she as beautiful
coming towards
As the day she went away

Brianna her daughter painted my poem on canvas. It is a repeat
somewhere on my sight. The original painting was given to me
to be framed. Mom is the guardian looking over her children.


Three years were up and it was the last meet. Several hundred miles away in
Canada. Mom did not fly. So kids, Grandma and Mom would drive. She never completed
the trip or he the meet. It has been ten years since the accident. Staci Jo
is still remembered.  

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