Wednesday, 17 August 2011

Cancer (20 June - 21 July)

Remembering
hanging, but stammering :
This is the language of love.
A pleasure,
A treasure.
A gift without measure.

This is the beauty of love,
Mystical
Lyrical
Always a miracle
This is the wonder of love.


More than a year has passed
Since you and I
Parted in grief and tears

Today at last
A letter came
One tiny, narrow sheet.

Tonight I’ve lit my lamp
A hundred times
To read its words of love.

This is love; two souls
that freely meet, and
have no need
of proving anything. 


Written by mum, 1975.