During Seminar in the Humanities during my college years a famous Grandmother Poem always struck me as pure and simple but yet complex and beautiful. The poem by Robert William Service taught me about aging and the idea of simple living. Every time I stare into my mothers face I get that same feeling of looking at my Grandmother’s face, it almost brings me to tears. Happy Mothers Day. Hope this poem is useful.

Old Sweethearts by Robert William Service

Oh Maggie, do you mind the day
We went to school together,
And as we stoppit by the way
I rolled you in the heather?
My! but you were the bonny lass
And we were awfu’ late for class.

Your locks are now as white as snow,
And you are ripe and wrinkled,
A grandmother ten times or so,
Yet how your blue eyes twinkled
At me above your spectacles,
Recalling naughty neck-tickles!

It must be fifty years today
I left you for the Yukon;
You haven’t changed - your just as gay
And just as sweet to look on.
But can you see in this old fool
The lad who made you late for school?

Oh Maggie, ask me in to tea
And we can talk things over,
And contemplate the nuptial state,
For I am still your lover:
And though the bell be slow to chime
We’ll no be grudgin’ o’ the time