| Roses for Jennifer |  |
| A birthday tomorrow,
not a happy one,
at twenty-eight years, a widow
not fitting in these days of sorrow
On a mountainside in Pakistan,
a refueling plane,
A KC-130, crashed
claiming the life of her man
A Marine who loved
God, Country, and Corps
taken from her
to somewhere above
The doorbell rings;
there stands a delivery
With his arms full of roses
Roses, of all things.
"Hope your birthday is grand,
Mrs. Mcollum," he said
The card says.
"With all my love, Dan."
This eight months bride
Soon to be, mother
Of a son who
Would be her pride
This new widow's grief
was eased in the relief
of a bouquet of love
sent by her husband
though he'd been nine days above
Nine days dead...
But, foresight ordered ahead
she will always treasure
Dan's beautiful roses of red.
| By Faye Sizemore
Copyright 2002
Listed December 31, 2011 | |
Author's Note: For Jennifer Mcollum, widow of Marine Dan Mcollum, Irmo, SC, killed in crash in mountains in a KC-130 near Shamsi Airbase in Pakistan, January 9, 2002 About Author... Faye Sizemore makes her home in the beautiful foothills of South Carolina with Grant, the love of her life, as well as three dogs, two cats, two parakeets and four nanny goats. Grant is a Vietnam Veteran having served with the US Marines in 1968-69 and is, of course, Faye's muse. Faye is deeply interested in Veterans' Affairs and Veterans' Causes. She is very proud of Grant and her poetry is an off-shoot of that pride.Visit Faye Sizemore's site for more information It is illegal to use this poem without the author's permission.
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