Poem: Sojourner's Mourning (Everything Has Changed)

What I'm thinking about as I'm transitioning out of living with my senior year roommates....

JAMoQ = Jenna, April, Monica, Quina :) 

inspiration: leaving my roommates Monica, April, and Jenna for a new season in life
key verse: 1Peter 1:1 "elect exiles"
song set to the background of poem: Franklin by Paramore

Sojourner’s Mourning (Everything Has Changed)

By: Quina Parchment

If I tape this leaf

brown

cracked

fallen from

this tree

onto this paper,

this scrap book,

even if tucked behind

a layer of plastic

I will salvage this season for but one more

before it crumbles

and slips away

gone

like the feeling of home.

So for now

I break off a limb from this tree

It will be

my staff

Embrace

my pilgrimage

But,

We can’t go back…

to that moment

that touch

and smell…

I will miss this.

I miss you already.

I love that breeze

that joke

that movie

that talk

that time we reconciled

that tea

Soon…

everything will change.

I won’t get used to this

sojourning

But,

isn’t it sweet?

what we will be?

no longer elect exiles

just elect

It makes me cry

grief for the passing of this present

death of this bright green leaf

Yet even when it floats to the ground,

dancing with memories,

it looks beautiful

it looks necessary

Sojourner’s mourning

the change of season

makes me long for Home

where everything will change