With Nothing But Love.

She held out a crisp note,
Smiling, she said to take it.
No Gran, I can’t, I said.
Please, it’s for your trip
I want you to take it.

I hesitated.
Go on! She encouraged.
I took the note, thanks Gran.
Well I have the money
On me now so you should
Take it, she smiled.

I don’t know if I was
Happy or sad, I was
Just overwhelmed by her.
This beautiful, old woman,
Who’d never seen the world
Giving me her money
So that I could.

We don’t have a lot,
We never have and
Probably never will.
But what we do have,
We give with nothing
But love.