Mum and dad on their fiftieth wedding anniversary
the  year  before  she  died  after  a  long  and
valiant battle with lymphatic leukaemia

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~A Sonnet to Sheila~

Go to sleep my sweet Sheila. Say goodbye

To the pain you have suffered this long while.

And know the memory of your lovely smile

Will live on in our hearts and give the lie

To thoughts that you are gone. How could that be

When everyone who knows you knows that they

Have met a soul so brave, so true, we pray

To be more like you; and your memory

Will be part of our lives, for we have grown

In trying. As "to thine own self be true",

Is what you've taught us, likewise you have shown

Us that as friend, wife, mother, darling, you

Have been the best: loyal, honest, pure of mind.

You taught us love - or to at least be kind.

From your daughter, Wendy

© 4/3/2000