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Andrew Rodriguez, 42 years old 
Born May 9, 1981
Passed on Tuesday June 18, 2024
Funeral Sunday June 23, 2024 

He had a gorgeous knocked out wife, Marlenis 
Two sons: Aidan 17 and Mason 11
A police officer with Miami-Dade, FL
A Broward Sheriff’s deputy 

What’s wrong with this picture?
What was so sad to learn?
What was not right?
What puzzle/images buried our heads, til date? 

That now, we questioned 
As it doesn’t seem to fit?
We can continue to question 
It will not bring, Andrew back 

His mom hard to console his wife, my niece Marlenis a beautiful soul, cries silently 
As her eyes puff and too sad matched 
Her Black dress all in distress …

His mom, I thus gave her a deep hug 
It was too hard to express my pains, as I could Feel her pains as a mother
there’s no greater pain to bury your child first, you last 

I am 100% sure …
No mother, want to bury her son 1st 
She would trade it 
Preferring to be her

Even if she has to go to the devil 
It’s a price 
You prefer to pay 
Give your life 1st 

What kind of bargain would require 
A reversal such trajectory act 
To dismiss your life and
Instead have him, not miss his 

It’s a classical story 
You don’t want to hear 
It’s a very dear son 
Too clear to hear 

As I sat, in close vicinity 
His coffin I could see 
His wife dressed all in black 
You can’t crack a joke here, all too sad here 

A eulogy was heard …
Precisely of the greatest of man 
Andrew Rodriguez, was definitely one of them
I reached close to his presence, I prayed 

God, an Our Father and Hail Mary 
Now, protect all of us present 
Next, could be any one of us 
He’s now with His God thus, we not 

He is suffering, now no more 
As he rolled over to end his pains 
None noticed
His heart gave up 

His own choice 
He decided by his own will
To not look back but, forward 
This time, no more life in Him

He took his own piece of work as a gun 
Place onto his body in his car 
Knowingly, instead of going home  
To his wife and kids, but his God instead 

There’s no further investigation 
No more questions 
No accusations 
No blames … we all have a free will

God is all loving?
God is all fair?
God loves all of us?
Did He loved Andrew that much, that he had?    
     To go and follow him, instead
      Of leaving all behind, even his kids

Everyone spoke eloquently of Mr.Rodriguez 
His friends, colleagues and all
His dear children Mason and Aidan 
His wife, Marlenis with her swollen eyes 

What have we all learned? 
Death is transient 
That you can’t change 
God is that place, of a heaven