#302 Grandma

In life, we leave a legacy of memoriesEtched in connections in living brainsTime spent together is not just being friendlyThere is love we share and happiness we gainThis poem is lovingly dedicated to my GrandmaShe has been around 92 years on this World where we areBrings happiness and joy to many a different faceShe takes life and it's challenges with a loving embraceBecause in 1926, the same year as Winnie the PoohMy Grandma was born all fresh and newYoung and full of promise, so fittinglyThey named her simply RosemaryAnd like rosemary, she works best with othersAs a mentor, as a neighbour, as a partner and loverShe never sees a person as better or worseJust a future friend with which to converseI feel lucky, even though I arrived so lateI spent 25 years with her on Earth as mentor and mateThat after so much time since that birth yearBoth she and I share this world right hereIf I start to worry about what the future might bringI remember, in 1926, we still had an empire and a kingWe've been through much turmoil and change, it needs not be namedJust that through it all my dear Grandma remainedWhatever challenges life decides to throw my wayBlood flowing in her veins flows in mine todaySo I have the power and the passion to persevereThanks to those strengths passed on from my Grandma right hereI just want her to know, how grateful I always will beFor the patience growing up she never failed to show meFor the love, and the light, let me just sayGrandma, thank you for all the memories you sent my wayMy Grandma is a special friend, as you can tell in this rhymeThis poem is in present tense for a very good reasonIt is adapted from one I shared with her one, two timesRepeated for her enjoyment in a sunnier and happy seasonReciting it to her, is a memory we both shareI can recall it in the present, even though it's in the past tooShe is alive in me, even though she may now be elsewhereSo Rosemary, Grandma, God bless, and thank you.***https://harryisapoet.blogspot.com/2018/09/grandma.html