Gloria D. Harrison

is honored with a Brick from Bo Harrison, Karim Sharif, Leila Sharif, Nabeel Sharif, Ramsey and Kim Sharif and Mark and Dana Tidwell.

Her eyes speak of stories
That will never be told
In her life or in ours,
And we, her children,
Begged to know.
We sat at her knees,
Listening for bits of what
She was
She is
She wanted to be
Reflected in the voice
That mirrors her eyes:
Soft, reminiscent, loving
With an undertone of
Thin concrete and
Sheer stone.
It presents itself in one word,
"Someday..."
And still we wait,
And wonder at this woman
Who is our mother,
Our saint,
Our beginning.
The one who set us on
Our travels,
Saying that our maps
Would find us, someday,
If we were to have them at all.
And suddenly we were
Scattered,
And not ready for it
And strangely surrounded
And alone
With what she taught
And what she let us learn
For ourselves.
And away from her we think
To ourselves,
"Someday..."

Written by Dana Harrison-Tidwell

September 18, 1998 (for Gloria Harrison)