Seventy-Two Years Ago

 

Seventy-two years ago

Dad and Mum Russell were married,

We would have been celebrating

If they both had tarried.

 

But this was not to be

As Dad Russell was the first to go,

He was deceased in 2009

And in 2020 Mum Russell died also.

 

Actually, they were married

For almost sixty years

Falling some five months short

On that dreaded November day.

 

It was on the 16^th of November

That Dad Russell took his leave

Followed by Mum eleven years later

And all like now we still grieve.

 

 

 

How we wish they were still here

To celebrate with us today!

But like so many of their generation

Death has taken them away.

 

Yes, seventy-two years ago

They said to one another, “I do”

And naught but death could part them

Proving their love was true.

 

We will celebrate their union

As long as God lends us breath

With the wish that they could know

The great void that they have left.

 

Stewart Russell © April 6, 2022