A Pocket Full of Yesterdays

Yesterday
They said I Do
There wasn’t much to go around,
Hard times, they had a few,
But smiles were free,
And she placed them everywhere she could. 

Yesterday
A child was born
Followed by three more little bundles of joy.
She fed them well and watched them grow
Around a table served with love;
She made that house a home.

Yesterday
She wept a mother’s tears
As each child walked their wedding aisle;  
Felt a grandmother’s pride and joy
When every grandchild took their seat
Inside her heart

Yesterday
And every yesterday before
With only her fingers, and her heart
She wove with threads of patience, hope and love
And from a meagre start, day by day,
Created a family

Yesterdays
Spent as husband and wife,
And every yesterday to come
He’ll be her husband true,   
For as each tomorrow becomes a yesterday 
He wouldn’t trade a single one.





december 2005
Janet Reid


For Kristie's Mother, from her Dad