Mourning # 29
I’m so sorry you’re gone
not sure how we carry on
I wasn’t there when you passed
because we were governed by a psychopath
when history tallies all the sums
we will realize what we have done
the dead will still be dead
the living filled with regret
I’m so sorry you’re gone
not sure how we carry on.
---- Art and music,
art and music teacher, Melinda
Roellig, 37, of Clarksville, Indiana
homemade Christmas gifts for family prepared
including her own paintings, personalized
"she put her heart into it and it just makes you
smile because you know how much she cares"
now will they be opened, will they be loved
Melinda died one week after getting a fever
without telling her relatives, her mother a nurse
when she checked on Melinda she called 911
Melinda died in the ambulance, she feared her
insurance wouldn’t pay, instead when others fell
sick she’d take care of them, she had perfect
pitch sang as a kid, played in the marching band
trumpet and painting at University of Louisville
she loved Harry Potter, got a Master’s degree
taught music at public school and art at the
charter school, her students adored her, she
taught choir after school, former student Carey
Walls said: She changed my life.
Melinda Roellig, art and music teacher, is survived
by her mother, stepfather, step-siblings, father, step-
mother, half-sister, brother, two nieces. And her art and
music students, whatever they wind up doing with that.
Art and music.
