Tiaan’s Letter Poem by Margaret Alice

Tiaan wrote me a mother’s day message, as
enigmatic as he himself: ‘Forget the years
gone by and enjoy every moment of the
rest of your life, with all the love in the
world’ quoting Psalms 1 and 115

I love him, the most wonderful thirteen-year old in
the world; his sister being the most wonderful
fifteen-year old; arranging her purple room,
part of a mother’s day gift; fixing, painting
the house to colour preference

Hubby is sweeping and cleaning, I’m writing and reading,
bought a million socks to face the bracing Siberia at
work every day; the band of labourers is kind and
obliging, joking and laughing, goodwill in
the air, permeating everything

I put Tiaan’s letter in the same file in which I keep
my father’s letters to me, to be framed and
mounted, says hubby...