John's poems of...LIFE - LIVING &LOVE...JDJ

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SHE CAME TO THE ROOM, AND GAVE ME A HUG:
STANDING ON HER TOES, WRAPPING HER ARMS, AROUND MY NECK,REACHING UP TO ME, FROM THE RUG:
      SHE SAID, GRANDPA, DO YOU NEED ANYTHING, I AM IN MY ROOM, JUST WATCHING --TELIVISION:
       OH  THAT LITTLE GIRL, JOCELYN, MY--NINE YEAR OLD GRAND-DAUGHTER--HER LOVE FOR ME, HAS ALWAYS BEEN SECOND TO NONE:
LATTER SHE CAME INTO MY ROOM, WITH A FULL GLASS OF ICE COLD WATER, AND SHE TELLS ME, GRANDPA-I  BROUGHT YOU SOME WATER TO DRINK:
I LOOKED AT HER, AND SMILED, AND SAID TO HER, OH JOCELYN, THANK-YOU, AND HER EYESAFFECTIONATELY, WINKED:
         I SAID JOCELYN, COME HERE, AND GIVE GRANDPA A BIG HUG:
         THEN AGAIN, SHE BEAR HUGGED ME TIGHT, TIP-TOEING-UP FROM THE RUG:
THEN I TOLD HER, THANK YOU SO MUCH-JOCELYN, FOR ALL THE LITTLE THINGS FOR ME THAT YOU DO:
THEN SHE SMILED AND TURNED, AND WALKED AWAY, AND I THOUGHT WE WERE THROUGH:
          
          THEN SHE SAID TO ME, GRANDPA ARE YOU SURE YOU DONT NEED ANYTHING ELSE, CAUSE I AM HERE:
           I SAID, OH JOCELYN, COME OVER HERE AGAIN, AND I GAVE HER A  BIG--BIG--HUG, AND HELD HER NEXT TO MY HEART NEAR:
THEN AS SHE WAS GOING TO SLEEP, TO HER ROOM, SHE SAID TO ME, GRANDPA DO YOU WANT ME TO COVER YOU UP WITH A SHEET:
I SAID, NO JOCELYN, IM OKAY, THANK YOUSO MUCH ANS THENSHE SAID, GRANDPA, YOU KNOW IM RIGHT HERE IN MY ROOM, WATCHING T.V.,IM HERE IF YOU NEED ME, AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS PRETTY NEAT:
            JOCELYN SHE IS SO SWEET, SHE EVEN WANTED TO COVER ME WITH A SHEET:
HOW IN A SIMPLE MOMENT, THIS LITTLE GIRL, JOCELYN, MY LOVING GRAND -DAUGHTER MADE  ME FEEL SO EXTRA SPECIAL, SO GREAT AND ELITE:
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07--NOVEMBER--2015:
BY: JOHN D. JUNGERS:


       


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