I look at your face and I wonder
What it would have been like if we met.
You look nice and kind, the sort of lady
I would have found it hard to forget.
Your eyes are just like mine I see,
Your nose is very similar too,
You have the same look around your mouth.
I’ve been told that I do look like you.
When I was small would you of hugged me?
Would you have dried my eyes when I cried?
Or maybe read me stories at bed time?
Perhaps taken it in turns to hide?
Now, would you like a trip out for lunch?
Or spend an afternoon close by the sea?
Maybe a day out in the countryside?
Or a chat over afternoon tea?
So many questions I have in my head
That I would ask if only I could,
But you had left this life so long before
So I always knew that I never would.
Why did God call you to his side so soon?
As a child I never understood that part.
A life time of memories denied us
Snatched away before we could start.
Maybe there is a life after this one.
Perhaps we will meet up as well
And I can ask you all of my questions,
Which I’m sure you will be so pleased to tell.
So I’ll still gaze at your picture and wonder,
Would we have got on well, you and I?
I would like to think that we would of
Because without you, it was hard to get by
A contest entry
- WANTED- poets who are inspired by life and not a prompt by McRae by nature.
700 points, ended November 8, 2007, 19 entries
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I see you wrote this one as your fathers thought and a fine job you did with it. I guess there were a few of your own thoughts in there seeing as your own relationship with your mother was not as one would have liked or expected.Sometime piece like this help to settle things in ones mind I had much the same feelings about my father it was only he had passed and i had matured that i realized how he felt. I wrote a poem about him which made me feel so much better and understanding of him.
A pleasure to read
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Such a bittersweet piece...you do know that Mum's are watching after the little ones in Heaven don't you? Loved every word.
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MJ Donnelly
As my Dad lost his mother when he was two years old I wrote this as if it was from him. Unfortunately I never got on very well with my own mother, not as well as it should or could of been. Thank you for your comments MJ.
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Very interesting and sad. Really wonderful write. Thank you for your entry.
Carrie -
Loved this one as it was about one of my fav subjects-mums! My one is 91 and still very young at heart-God bless all mums wether they be on earth or in heaven.xx
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moonbumps
Thank you so much for your commnets. It was not about my own Mother but my Grandmother as if being the words from my Father as he never remembered her but he had a photo. I wish your Mum many more healthy years and a certificate from the Queen. I lost mine almost 20 years ago.
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Please pass the tissues for tears are flowing
This is touching to the heart
...The loss of a Mother when so very young...You have such a beautiful way with words...Thank you so much for sharing with me and good luck in the contest
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Tender wolf
Thank you for your lovely comments on this write. I wrote this for two people. My Father never knew his mother as she died when he was two years old and I wrote it as if it were from him. A friend of mine lost his mother just after his birth so I sent him a copy too as he has spent a life time feeling he was to blame for her loss, was disowned because of her death and never had any affection from his own father. Sheila
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