Goodbye

I am finding it hard to write the words, to actually accept that she has gone. My dear mother-in-law, pictured  with her first great grandchild, only a few weeks ago, passed away peacefully on Sunday morning, surrounded by her loving family. Even knowing this day would soon come, it is never easy when the moment  arrives to say a final good bye. 

Gone — flitted away,

Taken the stars from the night and the sun

From the day!

Gone, and a cloud in my heart.

~Alfred Tennyson