Lasting Tribute for Bruce ROSA NINA (EGLI)

WITH LOVE FROM ROSA'S MIDDLE DAUGHTER,DIDO
" LOVE IS NEVER FAR AWAY"

On Zoom I see my mothers face
She's living in a different place
I search her eyes for a trace
Of the past we shared:
Sometimes it surfaces there.
Like a bright jewel plucked from dark seas
Her lively eyes twinkle at me.
She tries to reach for my hand-
But I am remote in cyber land.
I want to show her that I care.
I play a song to fill the air.
A smile flits across her face
I wish I could be in that place,
To hold her work-worn hands
And let her understand
She laboured not in vain.
Her loyal daughter I remain.
I remember she stood by me
Like a warrior queen protecting me
When life had hurt and battered me.
There on the rocks for all to see
She helped up a shattered me.
With the sharp sword of her love
Away my troubles she drove.
My keen-eyed mother
Sewing, baking, looking after friends,
Smiling at snobs and their grand pretends
Giving her grandchildren love and much joy
With a game or a hug or a favourite toy
The salt of the earth: She helped out the poor.
So I will celebrate and let non ignore
This noble lady's deeds of yore
This RADA graduate , socialist and Cook
Deserves more than a poem In life's long book
I hope to reflect her great courage and heart
I miss her so much now we are apart .

By Dido for her Beautiful Mum How I wish I could have been at her side
Bless you Rosa