Your Quiet Namesake

Arley,

May you know the quiet;

how your namesake lived alone for decades

Only to lead my little brother to the truth 

among a sea of grandchildren

Only years before her death.

There is too much story behind your names

To capture in clever words.

May you know the grace we all have heard.

The ones who went before:

May you know what we knew

and then know even more.