Daddy used to speak with words of love for his mother Mildred. My daddy was one of thirteen just born in Janurary of 1929. Daddy was somewhere in the middle of all the big family. His mother died when he was in the Korean war. His mother from what I was told Loved God with all of her heart. I did ask questions about her but there weren't too many answers forthcoming. I do know she gave him a bible that is my daddy's mother before he went overseas. Daddy told me he kept it inside his uniform pocket to read. One day when he was out fighting a bullet went through his uniform pocket with the bible in it. My daddy was a man that did love his family. He did work a lot of  hours just to put food on the table for all seven of us kids. The part of growing up in the household of nine people was the cleaning,  doing laundry and taking care of kids before I even grew up. But somehow we managed to get through life.  My parents both died at young ages. Daddy of cancer at the age of fifty two and mama at the age of 64 due to congestive heart failure. Some of these poems are about my parents.

My mother was a daddy's girl just like I was when she was growing up on a farm.

She knew how to plant crops, harvest and can them to get through the winter.

Mom loved her Dad just like I love my daddy. I thought he could walk on air and he could do no wrong.

I use to get in fights at school if any one said anything about my daddy he was my whole world when I was

growing up. I remeber hitting this little boy in the face he was making fun of my daddy's glasses I was wearing.

I did that cause nobody made fun of my daddy. I got in trouble when I got home. Mom at that time asked

him not to spank me .But he did not spank me then. Daddy really loved my mother but you know my younger 

brothers and sisters did not see it that way. My parents despite their differences were trully in love with each other

until my daddy died of cancer. Tell you the truth I think a part of my mothers heart died when my father died.

Music plays so softly for people I heartly missed

Daddy has been gone thirty four years 

such a lifetime ago.

Mama outlived daddy for nineteen years

I got to say half living.

Mama just despite misgivings my mother

really got so alone the last few years she lived

I am finally understanding what alone is all about.

Many people give up on life when family does 

come to see how things really are

Music fills me to move away the emptyness 

inside the lonely part of me. Music brings

me joy hope and growth to finish 

the race which is still set before me.

Mama this is for you your heart is still hear inside 

my spirit. I do miss you love you and mama

I thank you for you loved the best you knew how.