Thinking of my mother this week because of Mother's day, I came across these words I wrote soon after her passing from this life to the next many years ago now.....
Watching her leave so slowly--
what left last
was her smile and her laughter
These persist in my memory
as her "trademarks"
Those things which forever will be
her legacy to me.
here is a link to an earlier poem I posted about my mother http://www.goniagleanings.blogspot.com/2006/05/thoughts-of-my-mother-on-mothers-day.html
1 comment:
I love this too. I would write the same thing about my dad. We are struggling this year. The man I grew up with...and have loved my whole life...is but a meer shell of a man now....but the smile...ahh the smile is still there. Thanks for reminding me.
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