Morales Martinez Gilliam

Morales Gilliam was born September 21, 1955, in Shreveport, Louisiana to Booker T. Gilliam and Myrna Loy Byrd. Morales lived and worked most of his days in Los Angeles, California. He was the oldest of six siblings, and was preceded in death by his mother Myrna Loy Byrd. He leaves behind two wonderful children, eldest daughter La Keisha Gilliam, her children and son Marcus Gilliam his children, siblings, brothers Llewellyn Gilliam, Bartholomew Gilliam, and sisters Yolanda Lockridge, La Fondra Williams, youngest sister Audrey Gilliam, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, a host of family and friends.



"The Iris "


At the end of my suffering there was a door.





Hear me out: that which you call death I remember.





Overhead, noises, branches of the pine shifting.Then nothing. The weak sun flickered over the dry surface.

It is terrible to survive as consciousness buried in the dark earth.



Then it was over: that which you fear, being a soul and unable to speak, ending abruptly, the stiff earth bending a little. And what I took to be birds darting in low shrubs.

You who do not remember passage from the other world I tell you I could speak again: whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice:



from the center of my life came a great fountain, deep shadows on azure blure seawater.