Nov-em-b-ah child

Well this November Milly and Ah-Bell

are still some sisters, yet they're married off.

No bubs are on horizons (that they tell),

and yet they can not bring themselves to scoff.

Not thirty yet, and one not twenty five.

And each have brought a good man to our "fam".

We've sent them off, they come back more alive.

Their Mum is lucky, and that's what I am!

And we are glad they still see us as friends.

We hope that we can be that too, and more.

They're moving with God's "means" as well as "ends",

each wife already, maybe too, mother.

You've both played games like soccer well & good,

and keep yourselves as fit as you now are.

You're lovely ladies, friends to whom you could

be friends, you just continue near & far.

And so we'd like to wish you both the best,

in diff'rent places of God's world for now.

You'll each one have your own peculiar tests

but God has promised his presence - somehow!

And sometimes he is present in your skin,

that's even when it feels a scratchy bit,

and each of you is who he's living in

to be to your own sister some of it…

his care, his thoughts, 'n' love for this his child,

his sense of humour (just enough to smile),

his help with text/reminders ev'ry while,

and hug, and listen, then to scratch ya dial!

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Paul Walker November 2019, Orange, NSW, Australia.