My Late Great Mother-In-Law

 

I marvel at these portraits

Of a woman whose life I shared,

Not as her husband or children

But as an in-law she held dear.

I feel particularly honoured

To have been accorded such a treat

And in the words of her late husband,

She was wonderfully sweet.

 

I came on these portraits today

While on her daughter's Facebook page,

She too has gone to the great beyond
At a relatively early age.

She has left many family photos
Like the one that heads this poem,
Occasionally I visit her page
And take a memory trip through them. 

The memories they left are lasting
Though still tinged with a little pain,
But what is the use of sunshine
If there is never any rain?

 

This poem was not in the plan
But it came rather spontaneously
As I reminisced over those photos
Compliments of Pearl's photo Gallery.

It is not usual I post twice in a day
But I had to do it today
Just to honour a great mother-in-law
And to say thanks in this way.

Stewart Russell (c) December 23, 2019