Looking back
\nby cricketjeff on June 7, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nOn a day of hazy sunshine there’s a gentle mist of rain
\nWhen the joy she brought her fam’ly leaves a space for tears of pain.
\nAs the children play un-worried there are tears in mother’s eyes,
\nBut a burden has been lifted in a flood of gentle sighs.
\nWhen your life is past enjoying you may hear a final cue
\nThat it’s time you left the circus and paid Charon what he’s due
\nIn the middle of the summer there’s a blast of winter air,
\nAnd you can’t escape the sadness anywhere<\/p>\n
She could never be a burden but she bore a heavy load
\nAs she set four foolish children on a straight and steady road
\nNever seemed to be complaining never gave them any pain
\nBut she smiled and helped their progress never showing any strain
\nAs a mother she’d been happy then as grandma found still more
\nWith each bouncing little bundle she had more she could adore
\nBut before she found the summit of a full and useful life
\nShe found that fate can wield a dreadful knife<\/p>\n
In a year or two she faded from a goddess to a ghost
\nAnd the loss of time with children was the price she hated most
\nThere was no-one who could help her was the doctor’s mournful note
\nAnd her daughters broke down crying when they read the words he wrote
\nBut through all her final moments she was happy in herself
\nShe’d a stock of love and laughter in the volumes on the shelf
\nIn a bedroom full of chatter she has seen her final day
\nAs a life of happy moments drained away<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nNo it doesn’t relate to anyone in particular, just what was in my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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