1121. “Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning” - Alice Walker

Looking down into my father’s

dead face

for the last time

my mother said without

tears, without smiles

without regrets

but with civility

“Good night, Willie Lee, I’ll see you

in the morning.”

And it was then I knew that the healing

of all out wounds

is forgiveness

that permits a promise

of our return 

at the end.