Goodbye Dear Loved Ones Poem by Almedia Knight-Oliver

Thank you family, love ones and friends for your
part in my life journey. Now hush. Please don't cry.
I disrobed the shape and form after finding "Self" and
Freeing consciousness, strength, courage, and confidence.
The past several years, I suffered from fear of death.

Family and friends, I'm sorry I left a few things undone:
Questions not answered and some deliberately forgotten.
And my in-breath didn't soften the many unanswered questions
But, I tried to breathe in to lift you up and then out, to soften stress
and allow conscious breath to change lives.
But understand life is like a river and goes where it must.

I need you to understand my journey didn't end with death, just
another path I had to take- the same one everybody must take.
So how can I truly be dead and still alive in all the souls I'm
leaving behind.
Besides, all the things we enjoyed and deeply loved therefore,
y'all can never lose. For all we ever loved is part of all of us.

Before I departed, I wondered much if passing through the gate
would be similar to my experience the morning of March 8,2018,
when I felt myself passing out, told my Therapist I was leaving or she.
But later found out that death didn't come to take me on the other side,
instead to acquaint me with the path I will have to take.

When all was said and done, I guess, I was fortunate to
have had so much that made saying good bye so hard.
My songs ended, but my poems and art lingers in my children
grand, and great grand children.I'll hear their voice and
their children saying: Grams see what I painted and wrote!


December 21,2018