4 years ago I was on vacation and had a missed call on my messenger from my baby sister who lived in Edmonton Alberta. Later that evening I was able to get in contact with her.

First thing she said is he is gone. My brother-in-law had passed away suddenly. I wanted to jump on the next plane to go there. But I was in Cuba so it’s kind of hard and with the support of the people that I was vacationing with they made me realize there was nothing I could do.

So when I got back home I took the next flight out. They had been together since they were teenagers. The funny thing is for some reason I decided to write a poem for them. Not knowing a few years later that I will have written two books of poetry. The last poem in Poems of life is the poem I wrote for them it’s called ” Today”.