To Grandmother's House We Go

The new reality.

To Grandmother’s House We Go

 

By Elton Camp

 

To visit grandmother was a child’s delight

A welcoming hug made everything right

Aroma of fresh-baked cookies filled the air

About the family’s visit, granny did so care

 

Her comfortable old house, family enjoy

Welcomed each grandchild, girl and boy

She would take up time with each little one

To listen, talk, laugh and enjoy having fun

 

Such times, sadly, were then and this is now

Changes, such happy days seldom will allow

“Grandmother won’t be home when we arrive.

For she will be working at her job nine to five.”

 

At her age, jobs from which to choose are few

With what she is able to find, she will make do

“Welcome to Wal-Mart,” she says at the door

An old, tired lady can actually do but little more

 

It isn’t that she really wants to or that’s she able

It’s the only way she can keep food on the table

It is necessary because her husband passed away

And her income’s too small the many bills to pay

 

And the old homestead she wasn’t able to keep

But moved to the project where costs aren’t steep

She gets home, her feet hurt and back does ache,

It breaks her old heart not to be able to offer cake