Words of Art – Day 21 – She Was Ready

She Was Ready

She always believed
In the after-life.
Heaven.  Hell.  Or, God forbid,
Purgatory or Limbo.
As she waited for death
To finally come and
End her time on this earth
She was ready.
She was ready to see her
Mother and father once again.
She was ready to see her
Best friend, Millie, after all these years.
She was ready
To see the light that
Only the living talked about.

After saying her goodbyes
She was ready.
At last, she closed her eyes
And welcomed the darkness behind her lids.
She waited…..
She was ready.

Roy W. Backes
© 2020