Rejoice at the gift of restored health

Just a poetic (souper) side note courtesy chief

wordsmith brother unaware ye experienced grief

diagnosed as walking pneumonia please bull lief

yours me, he doth care and breathes sigh of relief.

Gratis the miracle of modern medicine wife

of Richard McGeehan, he offered succor

during serious bout when ye suffered strife

lovingly tendering lifelong counterpart

spelling finis regarding any galavanting nightlife

nurturing mother of their grown son (Brendan),

who immersed her whole self as housewife.

How aware ill luck of the draw

found thee inexplicably stricken

with serious malady against the law

nearly necessitating travois

(maneuvered by Kit Carson)

to transport thee to medical center.

The above stanza unbeknownst to you

analogous to current reading material

myopic eyes of mine view

historical fiction titled

"A Most Desperate Situation"

authored by Walter Cooper,

I just might maintain as keepsake

among various and sundry other books

lined up like soldiers upon shelved queue.

Courtesy perusing selective material

not so much to become boastful

self pedagogical ace,

but merely to expand knowledge base,

whereby latest erudition

preoccupies mindscape with displace

called realm of imagination

allowing, enabling, and providing me

to travel into hyperspace

only welcoming family members

like thee dear sister into myspace

a beloved sibling

thirteen plus months older

glad ye got begat December 1st, 1959

whereby ye got fifty two plus weeks headstart

to join (chance throw of genetic dice)

entrance into human race.

Though Amelie Beth Harris-McGeehan born

more than three score and three years ago

if series of unfortunate events would befall thee,

this sole brother would certainly mourn

and with futility emasculate and scorn

himself until... his own plaque

designating his buried cremains

in lieu of tombstone worn.