The Fox and the Elm Tree

The Fox and the Elm Tree

Keeping your almond eye

On that sunny place

Where a friend

And her brother are

Loved and remembered

I'd never been before

But you knew the way

At the tap by the path

You ran close by me

Red haired and bushy tailed

Our eyes met

I held back tears

Whilst filling the watering can

You made me smile

Bringing your life to

Where souls rest

Where camellia grow

Where grief rips and burns

In our garden

Of questions unanswered

At the Elm Tree

We shared memories

A dear mother

A little sister

And me

Memories I'd never shared

In four lonely decades

The tears came

The tears stay

Like the memories

Forever

For Julia and Robert

And for Coral and Sarah

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A sunny place where a friend and her brother are loved and remembered.