Sequoyia Roseboro

Astros part 1

Asha placed a single sunflower on the casket of the great Colonel Dubois, to her he was just daddy. A superhero in her eyes as any daddy’s girl sees her father. The casket lowered and it finally set in all the funeral planning, family coming in from near and far none of this had jolted her, but this moment did. Looking up at the gray sky, dead grass and tombstones, Asha finally broke. Her knees gave in and she collapsed tears pushing their way out of her eyes, her stomach tight, breathless, only tears streamed but silence. A squall escaped from her throat. Air! Finally, curled up on the ground gripping earth between her fingers, pressure on her chest and black tar in her stomach. She strained and heaved as the rain began to fall Ishmael picked her up and embraced her. He too had been in shambles over their fathers passing but managed to keep himself grounded and by grounded he had been drinking and smoking since he received the call. Not today though, today he allowed himself to feel but in this moment his baby sister needed him.