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 16th 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
