Half of a Pair - Elaine Draper Fisher - 1951-2019

Half of a Pair

Mary Elaine Draper Slaughter Fisher

 April 27, 1951 - March 10, 2019

My fitbit

kept count

of my heartbeats for years,

then suddenly,

it stopped. 

8:30 pm, Monday night.

8:30 Monday night,

You must have been in trouble. 

Your own lungs,

your own heart,

struggling. 

And then, suddenly,

stopped. 

2:00 pm, Sunday.

You and I,

we loved our jewelry.

Nothing expensive,

but baubles to amuse ourselves.

On Tuesday

as I journeyed to your bedside,

and somewhere

along the way,

I lost 1/2 of a pair of earrings

that I wore almost daily. 

That night, 

just gone.

And on the next Tuesday

we laid you beside Mama's still vacant spot,

I lost another half of a pair of pearls 

that dropped from my ears like tears.

Your heart stilled

and like 1/2 of a matched set lost,

you were gone forever. 

We were created in the same place,

in the same space.

The Draper Girls. 

One fat, one thin. 

So different, yet so alike.

We shared our love of

Our mother,

Animals,

Books, 

Baubles,

Chocolate,

Shopping, 

Sunny days,

and especially, 

our love of the Lord. 

Rest gently in His broad arms,

until the day I join you and 

we become 

a matched set

again.