Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
LONDON ELISE HARPER,16
September/23/2018
10:00 AM
"If you would've told me that I would be here today, burying my son. I wouldn't have believed you. Even now today I still can't believe my baby boy is gone. Every day I wake up, I want to call you. I wanna hear your voice one more time."
"I wanna hear you and your sister angel bothering each other or me one more time. Every day when I wake up and I remember you not here with us, I ask God why. Why did you have to take my baby?" Debora cried as she held the microphone giving her speech in front of everyone.
"Say what you want about my son, but you couldn't say he wasn't a good person at heart. Couldn't say he didn't have a good soul and made sure everyone around him was ok. Ever since he was a child Damari always made sure me and his sister were ok. Protecting us at all times. And with the older he got the more protective he got, But what he didn't know was that I was always protecting him."
"I was always right there, making sure my baby was loved, safe, and happy. I remember when he would get a cut on his knee as a kid, I would kiss it. Make it feel better, And now I can't kiss it. Can't make it better. It makes me feel like I've failed as a mother, All that for me to lose you. All my future visions are gone, and I'll never see what my baby will 20. When London called telling me the news, I felt the universe shift. When I heard those words, I died with you. But I played it so strong for you, for your sister, for London."
"It felt like it was illegal to cry over my child being killed, someone killed my child and I couldn't cry. I tried my hardest to stay strong for you, but seeing you here actually really hurts." Debora said, looking down at her son's open casket.
London had been staring at him the whole funeral, holding back tears as Debora spoke. Her leg bounced up and down at a rapid pace, she felt like they were the only two in the room. Seeing him lying there just proved to her that it was real.
Her soulmate was gone, she was alone again.
Rose sat a few rows down from her, sitting with her family. Lauren is to the left of her, Fanning herself with one of the paper church fans. Andre thought it would be best to show up for the funeral in support of Debora and London.
It made London happy that her siblings were back in town for a while, but it didn't take away from the reason they were here. "London, London," Amere spoke, nudging his older sister's shoulder.
she shook out of it, wiping her tears away. "It's your turn," he said nodding his head at the stage. Her heart sped up, as she saw Debora walking up to her with the mic in hand. "you ready?" she asked, helping London up from her seat.
