I wrote this the day she left… I met her 1st time in an airport, later in a green room for a tv taping. Her work touches me, She inspires me.
Maya Angelou
Ma-ya An-ge-lou……
Speaking your Name
Hearing your Beautiful Name
To this Colored
To this Negro
To this Black
To THIS AMERICAN of African Descent
Speaking your Name
Is as if a Cooling Summers’ Rain
Maya Angelou
Hearing your Name
Is as if to EASY some… of
OUR Pain
Maya Angelou
God only knows When I
Who was Blessed Like
So Many by Your Gifts
God only when or If
We can Ever not Morn
The Loss of
Maya Angelou
Curtis G. Aikens Sr. May 28, 2014
I Love you Maya Angelou…. Take your Heavenly Place with the Angles