Mona Lorenzana

 

 

There I was,

In a little classroom,

Which had about 35 chairs around table sets of 4,

It was also a Science class we all the materials that a science class needs

Temperature at about 86˚,

Listing to a teacher who is about 6”0’ and weighs about 300 lbs. And is a strong man named Mr. Sullivan

Who was looking at some pix?

Of animals for the topic Marine Biology.

 

Then along comes a staff member

Of the middle school

De Anza Middle School

I look at her with bewildering eyes

She looks at me with sad, confessing eyes

Then she walks slowly up to me

With her shining yellow hair glistening in the sunlight

She finally reaches me

And without a word

I get up and walk out of the classroom with her

Tears coming down my freckled face because

 I know that my poor innocent grandmother has passed away,

 

Then sure enough

He was there

My cousin Dean

In his little white truck that is so low that it is a low rider

I get in the truck thinking to myself

‘Why?  Why did my poor grandma Mona have to go?”

I finally get to the house

Where my grandmother is laying in her bed

With the worst disease ever that a grandmother should not have:

Breast Cancer.

 

I walk in the house

Everyone is crying

I go over to my grandmother’s room

And I look at her, kiss her and she is cold

She doesn’t move for in know

She never will so now I miss her so

She died?

She died?

This can’t be.  This cannot happen to my grandmother now.

How can my poor, innocent, sweet grandmother

Be gone?

I start to cry

I start to cry

I start to cry but I hold back

I can’t cry for I know

That is what my grandmother would want.

 

She hated sorrow

She loved laughter

She loved children and she loved me

So for her sake and mine

I do not cry.

 

But every night

I think of her

And CRY!