Nana

She has known laughter and she has shed tears
Poor gray haired Nana is showing her years
Last September her husband of fifty five years George passed away
She visits his grave site every second day

Nana and George had only one child Joe
He died as a teenager thirty eight years ago
He drowned when swimming in the brown lake
The Reaper of lives did give to them heartbreak

Time is the great healer as they do say
The grief of their loss in them slowly did decay
Few people go through life without some cross to bear
The Reaper of lives of young lives takes a share

Nana and George as a young couple came from Athens in Greece
She is aging with grace and with the World is at peace
A good mother to her long deceased son Joe and to her late husband George a good wife
On her seventy ninth year she has known of many an up and a down in life

A nice person to know one free of conceit
She smiles and says hello every-time we do meet
A part of her home Country that with her does stay
The accent of Greece it is with her today.