Seven Layers--By Sara Kendrick--United States

Seven Layers

To taste your tender essence once again

Springy, warm, lovely vanilla infused

Once more to travel the road to attain

A delightful thin slice of fudge suffused

Memories how they cling to your presence

Maybe create sweet impressions of my own

Lasting through time, problems, awesome pleasance

Could my life continue through a subtle sweet tone

Seven layer fudge frosted cake still draws

A picture in the mind's eye of mother

In the kitchen cooking without a pause

My life, her presence did surely color

Memories of seven layer fudge iced cake

To my humble grave assuredly take

Sara Kendrick married young and had a family soon after. After her last child went to school, she decided to pursue her GED. A gentlemen who worked with the GED program encouraged her to enroll in college.  She worked part time and cared for her family in addition to her studies. She graduated from Mercer University. Several years ago, after a health crisis, she started writing poetry.