This Is How I See Them

her little taffeta white suit and blue piping a hat tilted just so with her dark curls flowing around her face and down her back white gloves in hand with shoes and bag to match little bit of cherry lipstick against her alabaster skin eyes the color of Robin eggs open wide in search of her hero down the plank she walks along with all the other war brides do you see him Mom he is that handsome tall slender army officer in uniform with the black wavy hair and that beautiful smile he has been waiting for you for such a long time now their eyes meet his arms open wide and she runs to him one journey is over and now for all eternity another journey begins the two of them together loving holding and sharing until... In memory of my beloved Mother