"Let her go"

The hardest, yet most kindest words

I've ever had to say,

Will live with me 'til my last breath,

Remember well, that day.

My mother, on hospital bed,

Few years since widowed was,

Each day, did make a visit,

I did it, just because.

I had been with her earlier,

In fine form she did sound,

So glad I returned later on,

In writhing pain, was found.

Angina, did her, trouble,

Few heart attacks, had she,

Admitted in to hospital

Remaining hours, would see.

Sh' arrested in her ward, there,

Resuscitation, tried,

Alas, it was not working well,

That moment, mother died.

The nursing staff advised me,

"We could do this all night"

I had to tell them, "let her go"

She'd given up the fight.

She sensed that she was "going",

A diary, had she, kept,

Whene'er I read last entry,

My tear filled eyes, they wept.

Returning to her homestead,

Her diary, there, open,

Last entry had me teary eyed,

"These two, will get all,.......soon."