Inheriting a Lifetime

Some people’s life is awaiting

The arrival of their girl or boy…

Mine, the bequest of a poetry file;

Today was a heartbreaking leap for joy.

Betty Freund had a brilliant mind,

Now sadly, she’s passed away…

She collected her life's favorite poems,

Her daughter gave me her folder today.

It’s always uncanny when best friends

Collect poets with similar names…

But stranger yet when the poems,

Are often one in the same.