We Meet Across Space and Time

We meet across space and time

In those ethereal moments before sleep takes hold

I enter your chamber quietly

Disturb not the prayer your hands enfold

We meet across space and time

Grandmother and granddaughter it seems

And we wonder; me at how tiny you are,

You at my makeup and jeans

We meet across space and time

Weeping we embrace our hearts the same

You show me the tapestry that you’re weaving

That hangs in my home in a glorious frame

We meet across space and time

I show you all the marvelous things on my cell

And you are perplexed how this can be

Are these things that will send you to hell?

We meet across space and time

I weep because your fate is known to me

But for now we marvel at the miracle

And for all things in the future, yet to be

We meet across space and time

For a moment through the portal we blend

Knowing that you will forever move forward

With your DNA that will never end.

Judi Opager, February 14, 2021