Bonzer Words!: The Last Snapshot
...Life is cruel.
Families split apart in different lands...
Shirley Henwood tells of a sad goodbye.
Shirley writes for Bonzer! magazine. Please visit www.bonzer.org.au
I don't have a photo
Of the three of you
Standing on the station at Chorley
Waving goodbye
As we left.
Perhaps it's just as well,
It's a sad picture
Living in my memory
My father's cousins,
Bob and Arnold
And a little grandson.
Just a few days in your company
To span across the years of separation.
Life is cruel.
Families split apart in different lands.
We may never meet
Again, but if we did
It would be as families are.
As if the divide of
time and space did
not exist at all.
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