For my Mother ........

My parents on their wedding day - June 6th 1946

This poem is for my mother who died thirty years ago today .....far too young.

Remember

Remember me when I am gone away,

Gone far away into the silent land:

When you can no more hold me by the hand.

Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.

You tell me of our future that you planned:

Only remember me : you understand

It will be too late to counsel then or pray.

Yet if you should forget me for a while

And afterwards remember, do not grieve:

For if the darkness and corruption leave

A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,

Better by far you should forget and smile

Than that you should remember and be sad.

Christina Rossetti