One Day (Revised)

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

I’m 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


She’s 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

She’ll rest peacefully, and I’ll 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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G'day, and welcome to my blog site. My name is Ivor Steven, I live in Geelong, Australia. I'm an ex-industrial chemist, and a retired plumber, and a former Carer of my wife(Carole), for 30 years, who suffered from severe MS. I Write poetry about those personal thoughts, throughout and beyond my life as a Carer. I've been blogging for over 2 years, and writing poems for 19 years. Of course a lot of my poems are about my favourite subject Carole, but since I've been blogging my writings have become quite varied, humourous, mystical, observational, and even a few monster/horror poems.

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