The Special Women in My Life

A Poem Tribute for Mother’s Day 2020

Gone forever from my life now are

The mothers and women who loved me most;

Granny, Mother and wife Rosie.

My life wanders, lingering on alone

In a world still mourning the loss

Of its greatest human treasures.

Mother left first, a year after surviving stroke.

Rosie fought for 2 years against the cancer scourge

Before the good Lord took her to rest with Him.

I remember the springtime Granny passed;

It was a beautiful sunny day in 2003.

After 101 years, 6 children, 20 grandchildren,

And 28 great-grandchildren;

A line of 54 offsprings over a blessed century past.

Today, timeless memories rush in

Bringing loving moments of joy,

Recalling the joyous moments of love.

I remembered

They held my hands guiding me

through life’s unseen dangers,

And grow me to be a man.