Personal Narrative: Dana's Gardener

Dana’s Garden By Sidney Shier

“Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” -Stevie Wonder.

My childhood was one full of loneliness and beautiful flowers. Growing up I was picked on and never had any friends. My siblings didn’t quite care for me either, so I would often spend my time alone. My mother, however, would ask me to help her in garden. She was the best gardener I have ever seen, she would teach me all these tricks and techniques about gardening. We would spend summer afternoons planting seeds and stargazers under the warm sun. Those afternoons where the best of my childhood. But just like the flowers in winter, everything faded away. …show more content…
She died december 21st, 2009 due to drug abuse. She was a great woman, full of life and love. When she left she took the color of the world with her. The yard, once vibrant with Beautiful displays of colors is now dark with despair. The flowers that once bloomed died along with her. I never felt so cold and dead inside, it was as if the very snow storm that ruined my mother’s flowers, roared inside me. Chilling me to the core. My father often wouldn’t come home, and when he did he would be all messed up. My father is a great man, he just lost too much in his lifetime. So when my mother passed, he couldn’t handle it. I was completely alone. I had no one but