This is a loss that touches me
To the very core,
It’s my childhood friend, Sandra,
Whom I will see no more.
I am at a loss for words
To express what she means to me
And to that precious family of hers
Who misses her terribly.
The go-to person you can say
When solutions are to be fetch,
And I can never recall one time
When I have heard her fret.
Selflessness was her hallmark,
Those who knew her would agree,
She was a mother to the young ones,
That can be seen readily.
To think that in my future visits
No Sandra will be there to see
And no expectation she will turn up
To embracingly greet me.
I have struggled with her passing
Ever since I got the word:
Oriel and Greg passed recently
And now she is the third.
Margaret predeceased them all
Some years back, I recall,
But Sandra’s perceived untimely call
Is a great shock to us all.
No more Whatsapp greetings
Or encouragement for the day
And her many and varied emojis
For sure have gone away.
A visit to the hospital
Convinced me she was on her way
Yet, I was still disappointed
At the sad news I received that day.
It was Shawn who had texted
The most dread of dreaded calls,
“Sandra passed a little while ago,”
And immediately was a wall.
That wall that death creates
Between a loved one and their kin,
That wall that suddenly was erected
To block me from my friend.
I have no cheerful words today
To offer to anyone
But in my silence simply recall
The loss of a friend now gone.
And Sandra was my friend
And always, she will be
For as long as God lends me life
And I have my memory.
Stewart Russell © December 11, 2022
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