Eleanor

1. Your name was clear from our beginning
2. Eleanor, not mom you said, our start a little shaky
3. Care you did though, as we made mis-stakes a plenty
4. Advising us of responsibility in our life just starting
5. Every request met with assurances of you were willing
6. At the same time cautioning of our plans being flaky
7. The packages you sent filled with treasures in our poverty
8. Always grateful; did you know our love for you, self interesting
9. Grand child’s arrival came so suddenly, no chance for sharing
10. The precious articles of knitted dreams sent almost daily
11. Did you know how happy you made us with those pieces of lovely?
12. How cute our child looked in the blues, yellows, greens from your hands, caring
13. Many hours you spent buying teddy bears, dogs, monkeys his crib lining
14. I know that you love him and us. I mean this sincerely.
15. Goodbye, dear one. It’s time to travel on with angels lightly
16. Go forth, fear not loved one, the Lord’s trumpets blaring.
17. I love you.