Somewhere Over The Rainbow ... Has Made Me Cry, Today ... I Can't Go Back

Somewhere Over The Rainbow ... Has Made Me Cry, Today ... I Can't Go Back
By Gloria Faye Brown Bates/aka Granny Gee

　
Grandma Alma ... George in top photo.  Gloria Faye Brown Bates/aka Granny Gee in middle, bottom photos. 




She began singing ... my Heart began filling with tears

Somewhere inside ... where my tears come from ... they began to fall



Fall from my eyes, drenching my lashes with diamond teardrops

The female voice sang ... Somewhere Over the Rainbow ... instantly throwing me into the past



A little girl sat cross-legged on the old, dusty, wooden floor... Hell forgotten for a few moments

Behind her ... sat an older woman, tears in her eyes ... beautiful smile on her face



An elderly man sat in an old, cane chair, his sightless eyes shining with a smile

The sweetest expression on his kind face ... an adult transported back to being a child



The little girl's Grandma Alma ... her step-grandfather, George

The kindest man she'd ever known ... the only grandfather she ever knew



The little girl who used to be ... me, Gloria Faye Brown Bates/aka Granny Gee

Somewhere over the rainbow... has made me cry today ... I can't go back



I cry for the loss of grandparents I'll never see again ...

I cry, because, now ... I can appreciate them fully for the people they were



Little munchikins walk out dancing, singing ... Grandma Alma, George smile

Forgetting the hell they sat in ... focusing on the munchikins ... following the yellow brick road; happy ... magical moments in their life



The little girl smiled, laughed in delight ... in the mind of the older woman she has become today ... at her precious memory

Somewhere over the rainbow ... has made me cry, today ... I can't go back



Go back to a time, visit one such precious moment ... there were very few

I treasure the memory of smiles, laughter I can see ... hear in my mind from a time long gone



Something special in the midst of Hell ... a grandchild sitting, for a moment in ... Heaven

With her grandparents, laughing ... excited ... The Wizard of Oz just came on tv!



I heard a woman sing 'Over The Rainbow' today ... I was sent into the past

Somewhere over the rainbow ... has made me cry, today ... I can't go back