Her Story/Oceans

I never wanted to relive my grandmother's story

A city girl with a beautiful smile 

A dancing and wondrous soul who longed for the ocean

Deep and endless

A hopeless romantic, truly

She fell in love with a poor man who studied in the city where she was from

When they married, she up kept his home while he worked and raised all five of their children

Time passed

Every night she would cry herself to sleep because he never came home

She stayed

She never dared to be the woman who wasn't good enough for him

Even with tears, she fought his approval, his acceptance, his love

So much time fighting

And she lost herself

The truth is

All my grandmother really wanted to do was dance

Dance with her love

Smile, laugh and enjoy her life with the man who never accepted her

When she was dying, my grandfather wept and told us he never deserved her

The day she died, I saw her cry too

It was then that she received what she had always longed for