My truly exceptional Maternal Grandmother!

A thank you to my maternal Gran!

By Stanley Collymore

 

You are my mentor, have always been my staunchest

protector and throughout my life were always there

to help me whenever I had a seemingly insoluble

problem, whether it was my own or someone

else’s doing, that I hadn’t the slightest clue

how to go about satisfactorily solving; yet

you always in such circumstances quite

undauntedly and with an indomitable

encouragement calmly, consolingly

and appreciably encouragingly as

was your customary wont stepped in and with

your knowledgeable expertise consummate

wisdom and in your typically enlightened

fashion tenderly and most pragmatically

placed before me the realistic options

opened to me while astutely leaving

me with the concluding decision as

fully mine to make, but whatever

that was I honestly knew would

confidently be assisted as ever

by your intrinsic and concrete

guarantee, itself perceptively

and devotedly supportive of

me! Honestly an inimitable

woman that’s what I freely

reckon, and candidly how

providential and entirely

absolutely rewarding to

know you’re my Gran!

 

© Stanley V. Collymore

25 May 2016.

 

 

Author’s Thoughts:

In an utterly screwed up world where significant numbers of people, and possibly even the vast majority of inhabitants of this Planet Earth that we contentiously share with each other and most conspicuously so in the so-called western developed world, haven’t a realistic clue who or what they really are or even why they’re actually living and consequently for the overwhelming majority of them life is utterly meaningless.

 

Thankfully for me and my entire family that has never been a problem or isn’t ever likely to be and for that fortunate and most rewarding situation the inspirational force and the invaluable contribution to this immeasurably beneficial and most prodigiously rewarding situation is unquestionably and significantly due to my incomparable Gran!

 

And this poem is just a small token of my appreciation, gratitude and my fathomless love for a truly remarkable human being who is also incontestably a principal and highly prized member of my family!