MOEZIE MOMENTS:

Dedicated to Louise Lorette Valdivia
December 25, 1909 - January 14, 2005

Glimpses from your past
- a brief memory
- the stories you told
- a life history

Unfolding deep truths
- as lessons for life
- sharing your past
- to teach us what's right

Reaching toward yesterday
- her eyes brightly glimmer
- to teach understanding
- so our lives would be clearer

"No sweeter the sound than of a baby crying"
- she once said to me
- revealing a wound time couldn't heal
- a lesson learned
- a young Mother's tragedy

So while places and names
- would alter each time
- I'd listen for unspoken lessons
- revealed between lines

A stern father, who rebuked her suitor
- not once, nor twice
- not three times
- unbelievably, once further

Together your love endured
- passing yes, another test
- four years of waiting
- providing one stories happy ending
- and many just begining

Banjewanji, Kalibaru
- Den Haag, Palo Alto
- chapter headings in your story
- were yet backdrops where your beauty
- kindess, caring and love
- glowed like a halo

At each stop, felt by all of us
- unconditional love
Our greatest gift now
- looks down from above.

Forever our hearts will remain true
- and the lessons you taught will serve us well
- through tears
- and of course laughter
- your stories we'll tell

Lieve MoezePoez, Rest in Peace!!!