My Mother In Law, My Mon
I called you
Mom from day one.
You called me
Shirley, sometimes
you called me Hon.
But I had
to let you go,
I had to say
"Good Bye."
But in my heart
I said,
"Mom please
don't die."
That was more than
ten years now.
Sometimes I
still cry. That day I
had to say "Goodbye,"
the day I had
to let you die.
M.C. Newberry
Mon 15th Jul 2013 17:17
Hi Shirley - I can easily identify with your
poem and its content. I wrote "My Mother"
after my own passed on twenty years ago - and
I can still recite it.
"It's a while now since she passed away,
And time has hurried on,
But still I hear her softly say
'You'll miss me when I'm gone.'
With each and every passing day
I sadly think upon
Those quiet words i heard her say:
'You'll miss me when I'm gone.'