Feb 2020
Married, unmarried, with children, without - this reaches out for all in one or other .
There Are Daughters, Sons
There is a daughter and a son
One or more to almost everyone.
And when we’re gone
We want to leave a sign
That we were here.
A legacy, a benefaction
Some provision
Carried to a future, a hereafter
With a memory or memories
That we were here,
The seed in us that brought them where
They are right now.
Some symbol
In a form tactile;
Visual (a picture, books)
Aural (music)
Journals, diaries or cash.
Reminders in moments of flashback.
We love our progeny,
We think of them as prodigies,
Love so miraculous and strange.
Phenomenon we cannot, would not change
For all the tea in China.
Read this, sons and daughters;
Be respecters, benefactors of your own
To carry on and far beyond
The life on loan.
There Are Daughters, Sons 2.26.2020 Love Relationships II; Arlene Nover Corwin
To Jonathan & Jennifer
There Are Daughters, Sons
There is a daughter and a son
One or more to almost everyone.
And when we’re gone
We want to leave a sign
That we were here.
A legacy, a benefaction
Some provision
Carried to a future, a hereafter
With a memory or memories
That we were here,
The seed in us that brought them where
They are right now.
Some symbol
In a form tactile;
Visual (a picture, books)
Aural (music)
Journals, diaries or cash.
Reminders in moments of flashback.
We love our progeny,
We think of them as prodigies,
Love so miraculous and strange.
Phenomenon we cannot, would not change
For all the tea in China.
Read this, sons and daughters;
Be respecters, benefactors of your own
To carry on and far beyond
The life on loan.
There Are Daughters, Sons 2.26.2020 Love Relationships II; Arlene Nover Corwin
To Jonathan & Jennifer
