Never the Right Time - Diane Scantlebury

I was shocked
When I heard you’d died,
And felt sadness
For your sons,
Somehow it seemed wrong
That you had gone,
You were barely into
The middle years of your life,
Almost young enough
To be my child,
A beautiful, ambitious woman
Taken too early,

Those poor boys,
What heart break,
What pain,
To lose a mother
Too soon,
Those who knew you
And loved you
Are speechless,
Grief stricken,
Although we knew
It was inevitable,
Only not just yet,
But the time is never right
For the young to die.

Diane Scantlebury