by Nel Chong

Created on: March 20, 2010

She was clothed in black and her face painted white

Her lips was painted red

She looks as if she was asleep

It was strange as we said goodbye

They cried, those faces around me

They were sobbing and screaming 

They cried, those faces around me

I know them yet I felt like a stranger

Then

The fire became strong and fierce

engulfing her in madness

the last of her

as those faces around me

they cried

Yet I stood there alone

a stranger among family

a stranger among friends

I do not cry

I couldn't cry

The fire died

and she was gone

Goodbye Grandmama

Goodbye

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