This is a poem from way before I started blogging in 2017, and I originally had it in a booklet of poems, called ‘Before, After, Now’ from 2010. So I thought I would repost the poem for the Weekly Prompts, Weekend Challenge, which is: One Day … please go over and visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here
One Day (Revised)
I am not asking you to dust my story’s book cover
Nor am I expecting you to be like our kind mother
You know in your heart there are no others
Iโm alone during my nights, under cold covers
All I want from you is to look for no other
All I need from you is to love me like a sister and brother
Sheโs fading away, not complaining, and no bother
Her dying life has given me no time to hover
One day not so far away, her eyes beneath the clover
Sheโll rest peacefully, and Iโll be crying over and over
All I want from you is to hold me while I recover
All I need from you is to love me like a sister and brother

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Aww, such a sweet and moving poem Ivor
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Thank you for kindness Sadje ๐๐
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Itโs always my pleasure
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What a beautiful, moving poem. Thank you, Ivor, for sharing it with us in our new One Day challenge.
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Thank you for appreciating my old poem Sue๐๐๐
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Powerful, Ivor. I’m going to look for your Spillwords post now. I had to reset my password to vote.
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Thank you kindly Robbie ๐๐
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so poignant, touched my soul! xoxo
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Thank you very much Carol โฆ ๐๐๐โฎ๏ธ
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Beautiful piece, Ivor! ๐ซถ๐ผ
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Thank you Nancy ๐๐
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Absolutely brilliantly beautifully heart-and-soul-touching, Ivor!
(((HUGS))) ๐โค๏ธ๐
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Thank you very much Carolyn โฆ An oldie goldie from just before Carole passed โฆ May 3rd 2012 โฆ wow. 12 years ago this week ๐๐๐๐๐โ๏ธ๐ถ
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Aw. That’s a long time, yet I’m sure some days it feels like she just passed yesterday. ๐ฆ
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Yes โฆ today it feels it was yesterday ๐๐๐๐
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Thanks for sharing amazing poem.Anita
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Thank you kindly Anita ๐๐
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