Poem for Freda and Bernie Samuels and more - Update on Mom

POEM FOR FREDA AND BERNIE SAMUELS

PART ONE

In these historic times

I listen to a Brahms Violin Concerto

on You Tube, which is untouched

by the virus

unlike you Bernie and I

He fought in the Navy in World War II

while you have fought many battles on

the homefront

Guiding your beloved Sharon - such a sensitive soul -

through losses immeasurable - how many people can

lovingly raise wild birds from daybreak to dawn?

Go now to your window and I will go to mine

I will throw out a kiss and perhaps it will

land in your glorious pad at Paul's Run.

PART TWO

Meeting you was among the Wonders of my Life

You read about me, Ruth Zali, in the newspaper and scooped

me up in your heart where you reside like a diamond.

We shall join forces, sing our Passover songs, and pray

to the Almighty.

We have so much to be grateful for -

the strength and power of our minds

the resilience of our spirits

that will get us through this 

once-in-a lifetime plague 

as we did in ancient times,

dayenu,

and burst outside in the sunshine

arms up in the air

victorious

victorious 

at last as we live

in everlasting peace.

...

When they lived in Warrington, I would visit often.

Freda had a way of saving her lettuce. She'd roll it up in a towel and it would stay for days.

Thanks! I will do dat!



Bernie is the best storyteller I've ever met.

...

Mom, 97, is doing well at Abington Hospital.

When they wheeled her in to do one of the procedures she began singing In My Easter Bonnet.

...

Scott came over a while ago, dressed to drive to SEPTA.

His kidney stones are better.

Told him when I wake up in the morning I always check out the window to see if his Wonder Bread white Honda is there.

...

That'll do it for me now.

Do something new and different.



Suddenly I'm fascinated with War books, probably bc we are at war with the virus.