I am writing with Ethical ELA this weekend and the prompt asked us to consider women in our family in our poems today. There are many women I could write about as I am surrounded by strong women who go after what they want and live with their head high. This is a poem about my sister-in-law who was my model for being a mother, who left us too soon, but whose quiet strength is still a motivating force. She really had only one request from me and to be honest I would have done it anyway.
Because if you can be there, I will be forever grateful she said realizing her last grandchild would
Arrive before they returned that spring and knowing I would love on them all in
Real life until she could be physically present might have been a prophetic wish
Because her timeline was shorter than any of us could have imagined
And the love already was established allowing for someone to be there
Representing special dresses, concerts, graduations
And remembering we need someone who cares in the background, as I remember the day she said
Arrive before they returned that spring and knowing I would love on them all in
Real life until she could be physically present might have been a prophetic wish
Because her timeline was shorter than any of us could have imagined
And the love already was established allowing for someone to be there
Representing special dresses, concerts, graduations
And remembering we need someone who cares in the background, as I remember the day she said
Just take care of that baby as I struggled with my own crying one years earlier
And she added, remember these days will fly past and you will wish them back, adding again and again
No problem with every question, request, while showing me mostly with
Examples like how to butterfly a wound and love on your child no matter what
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