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JUST PICTURES ON THE WALL



Mom a dark haired beauty
Taken months before she died
Just a young lady of fifty five
She is smiling through her pain
Land locked phone in her hand
She would be amazed to see a cellular phone
Electric typewriter by her side
This woman who typed 100 words a minute
Amazed to see me at my computer
Rolodex and pencil in her hand
Yellow tablet doing dictation shorthand
I just type the words--hit publish
There's me--my sister by my side
I was eleven she was just seven
We were closest in Mom's heart
Jeri died two years ago with Mom
Just pictures laying on my desk
Blurred in the tears in my eyes
But Mom--Jerri, see the other pictures
The Grandchildren, sports, college
For us the future has gone by like
The electric typewriter dictation
Hey Mom, men have been on the moon
Reality shows have replaced Ed Sullivan
Remember Mom, Bob Hope, Liberace
trillions of stars are painting the skies
Mere brushes entertaining the moon above
For the beauty found in an Angel's eyes
Never dimming passion of Eternal love
God saith: Forget her as love unbourne!"
For in your unmirrored eyes feelings of a fool
This Especial Star for whom you mourne
Has fallen from the skies in dazzling hue
For to my earth I take this star in glowing flame
I leave behind other galaxies to take her space
Thyne eyes, thyne motion, to hear thy name
Forever is the void no one can replace
Fern Erma Soash Bisyak and Jeri Aldridge
You will always live in my heart



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