You drank my life away
Yours too
Your stamina remarkable
And torturous both
We joke about
Proof of Life
With our hybrid, college-aged kids
But then, it's not a joke
As I wait for the I'm-still-alive dots
From an imminent text
Do you still have
The will to live?
Just in case
I wrote your eulogy
Alisa R. James is a mother, marketing professional, business leader, and sports super-fan. Over the last few years, her journaling morphed into poetry. She joined the Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange in the fall of 2023. When Alisa isn't working, writing, playing tennis or watching basketball, she's probably visiting her college-aged daughters or walking her dog on the trail.
