Steven told me once: “You know,

absence makes us realize how

fond the heart already was”

Hammer-like it hit me – Pow!

Right between the “I”s it hit me

midst “I wish” and “I’m so sad”

I wish I’d realized I loved

My Mum so very much, and Dad.

I’m so sad my stupid pride

Somehow couldn’t let me state

How much I love both of them

Now they’re gone it’s far too late.

Sisters, brothers, wives and Mothers,

Husbands and our children, too

So rapt in our selfish lives

That we can’t say “I Love You?”

Don’t let absence teach the lesson

Put your spite or pride away

Tell them, write them, text them phone!

Do it, do it, please, today.