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On Tuesday 27th June 2023, beautiful Milly Alison Jillian Smith was born to Sarah and Andrew. Jilly would have been so thrilled and proud to add her first granddaughter to the family. The ‘Alison’ and ‘Jillian’ are fitting tributes to Sarah’s mum Alison and of course our own dear Jilly. I know Jilly was thrilled when our daughter Alison And Rich produced two grandsons, Hugo and Ben and this latest addition would have been the icing on the cake for her. She would have loved them all dearly.
Les
3rd September 2023
When you lose someone you love,
Your life becomes strange,
The ground beneath you becomes fragile,
Your thoughts make your eyes unsure;
And some dead echo drags you down
Where words have no confidence.
Your heart has grown heavy with loss;
and though this loss has wounded others too,
No one knows what has been taken from you
When the silence of absence deepens.
Flickers of guilt kindle regret
For all that was left unsaid or undone
There are days when you wake up happy;
Again inside the fullness of life,
Until the moment breaks
And you are thrown back
Onto the black tide of loss.
Days when you have your heart back,
You are able to function well
Until in the middle of work or encounter,
Suddenly with no warning,
You are ambushed by grief.
It becomes hard to trust yourself.
All you can depend on now is that
Sorrow will remain faithful to itself.
More than you, it knows its way
And will find the right time
To pull and pull the rope of grief
Until that coiled hill of tears
Has reduced to its last drop.
Gradually, you will learn acquaintance
With invisible form of your departed;
And when the work of grief is done,
The wound of loss will heal
And you will have learned
To wean your eyes
From that gap in the air
And will be able to enter the hearth
In your soul where your loved one
Has awaited your return
All the time.
From Rosy Mortlock
13th June 2022
