04/13/2021
“April 13th, 2020 - How do you keep going when you wake up to the news that a loved one is gone? News too dense like morning dew drops on rested surfaces, you begin to fight doubt to make your shifted reality just a dream. It’s an eerie feeling when you look around and see the sun coming up as if the world should stop but everything around you keeps moving.
You question, “Why?” Yet for some reason, you go about your day heart half missing while your body slowly becomes paralyzed like venom attacking your veins. You see the sun shining and smiles rising upon strangers faces, yet have to live with a tragedy that alters your life to the point of no return; sorry theirs no refunds.
Like a train that starts and stops, so does life. And that stop is unforgiving only giving a few minutes for you to either get on or get off before it continues onward with it’s journey. Charlette has endured this viscous cycle more than once, so I imagine this debilitating ache that never leaves her side as she sits with one less creation on this ride.
Unfortunately, we purchase tickets with the intent that we all make it to our destination, but lose the closest ones along the way.
It’s hard to look at sunrises the same knowing a piece of your purpose is no longer here with you. But the journey will continue while we figure out how to heal, hope, and maneuver through traumatic damage and despair.” - Ms. Lowe
This is an original excerpt from Antonio Burnett Jr’s Memoir written by Ms. Lowe. His memoir will be available to purchase by Fall 2021.
