For Dora - our beautiful boys.................

I see you in the soft breeze 

       and the perfume of the flowers in my garden

I see you in the eyes of our grandsons

I hear you in their laughter

And I know you are a part of all that is good in them.

I cry that you are not here to share in their lives

      and yet I know you are watching over them from afar.

I cry that your daughter is without her mother

      and that I can never be the mother she has lost

And yet I know you talk to her in her dreams

      and that you bring comfort.

It has been three years since you left us when Gold called

      and yet you are all around us

You smile at me from your frame on my mantlepiece

      and I light a candle for you 

And I cry for all that has been lost from our lives

       without you here.

This is my gift to Jen and our beautiful boys in the memory of Dora - 26 February.