Lines for Yoria

Roses, jasmine, and mums:
the memorial flowers
I chose for my Mum.



Old age catches us,
some before we've truly lived;
Yoria, indeed
you lived a full, well-lived
and good life, Mother.

Something close feels real:
Yoria in hospice care;
you slept soundly,
rainy humid morning,
monarch butterfly rising.

Christopher T. George