Mommy please see
My knee is hurting
Will you please kiss it for me
Go to the bathroom
Wash up your wound
Bandage it and go to your room
Mommy I’m sleepy
Let me hear your voice
Would you please read me a story?
Go to the shelf
get your pillows and blanket
You’re old, you can sleep by yourself
Mommy hear this
I got a medal today
I got honors, isn’t it a bliss?
Check all the locks
Stay inside the house
And put that metal in the box!
School for free
I got a scholarship mom
I can finally finish a degree
Get a work instead
Help me with the bills
That way we’d go better ahead
Years passed by
They went on with their lives
No letters received any reply
Then came December
the women were old
Only then did one remember
Child, I am old
I need a doctor and more
Would you come, I need your hold
Sorry there’s work
I can’t drop by your home
Send me the bills and I’ll send my clerk
Child I am ill
I don’t think I will last
I’d like to see before my will
O I’d love to
But I’m due to marry
I’ll send someone to see you through
A short time it was
No hello nor goodbye
Soon the other did pass
Tears from their eyes
Though apart, they cried
Silent forgiveness I surmise