Stunningly beautiful 🙂
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14 Saturday Sep 2013
Posted Poetry
in14 Saturday Sep 2013
Posted Poetry
inStunningly beautiful 🙂
14 Saturday Sep 2013
Posted Childhood Memories, Grief, Heartbreak, Longing & Waiting, Poetry
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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, death, grief, heartbreak, loss, love, Mother, Mum, pain, poetry, UK poet, Yorkshire poet
The clock struck twelve
and you were gone.
No family home,
I had no Mum;
why did you leave
me on my own?
You should have known,
I should have gone.
The days went fast
and slow, time passed;
but I was with you
at the last.
I often grieve
for what should be;
arm in arm,
just you and me.
©…and the Clock Struck Twelve 17.08.2013
by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
The face of a W & H Sch grandfather clock at the Marines’ Memorial Hotel in San Francisco. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)