Mother Queen

The Second Elizabethan era ended.

Your Majesty,

I never thought you would die.

 

Well I did, you were ninety-six

and I had watched you age,

watched you go grey,

develop a stoop,

watched you shrink

and become less mobile.

 

You reminded me of my own mother,

who was so like you,

both in looks and in her devoted

service to her family.

 

I watched her go grey too,

watched her develop a stoop,

watched her shrink

and fade under the scalpel

that was meant to excise her cancer.

 

May you both rest in peace.

 

09/09/22

Reviews

[Sami Khalil]

May they both rest in peace. A touching tribute.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you Sami

[jacob erin-cilberto]

This oozes with sadness, sincerity, and respect for two Mothers who were both Queens in your eyes.
j.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

It was back in 2003 that I lost my mother after botched surgery. She was very much in the same mould as QEII. many thanks Jacob.