You Never Sang Or Smiled...Grandad I Still Love You Anyway....
By Sue21
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
Pamplona, Spain
June 16, 2019 3:59am CST
You never told me stories
You never sang to me
We hardly ever exchanged a word
I cannot ever remmeber seeing you smile
Why oh why could´nt you ever be happy?
I always tried to make you smile
Seems like it was never to be
The few times I ever saw you
I wanted so much to run and hug you
Only to hear a sharp reprimand
Don´t wake him up or else
Fastforwarding much time later
I realized that you worked so hard every day
You just had no time for work or for play.
Words are all my own and Manolo Escobar this is about my Grandad a Coal Miner who worked so hard under ground all of his life he had no time to play or even smile with us.
He would sit in the chair and fall asleep from sheer exhaustion.
I know its Father´s Day other places but how much would I like there to be a Grandads Day so they can also have their say.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
16 Jun 19
When I was small it was hard to understand really although I knew he was tired.
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@simone10 (54180)
• Louisville, Kentucky
17 Jun 19
@lovinangelsinstead21 yes, I can see how that would be difficult for a child.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
18 Jun 19
@simone10
I guess it must be like that still for some children.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
17 Jun 19
They never showed me outwardly any such love either but I still loved them just the same but it was frustrating to know why they could be like that.
I think that maybe the War had a bit of something to do with it also maybe.
I am sorry that they did not love you either.
Anyone with Grandparents that loves them is so lucky so very lucky.
He was always falling asleep as the work was just too much for him at that age and I understood it much later on.
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@ShifaLk (17811)
• India
17 Jun 19
@lovinangelsinstead21 oh I guess yours were busy... Maybe
But we lived separate family...
And they just loved their other son's Children. Even till now.. They love them
But it's okay..............
You lived with your grandparents?
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
18 Jun 19
@ShifaLk
No, not at all it was not very often I saw them as we had to walk a long way there and back each time.
For me there will be no difference between one Son´s children and the others.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
18 Jun 19
He probably did but never ever showed that towards any of us there was a lot of favourite inclination towards his second son and their child.
I was not jealous could not be bothered about all that.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
18 Jun 19
@DianneN
She knew and knows how to hurt people though but still I don´t let her get to me.
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@DianneN (254926)
• United States
18 Jun 19
@lovinangelsinstead21 That’s the best attitude you could have.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
19 Jun 19
@nela13
I think that an adopt a Grandad would be a great idea for some as I did not know my other Grandad either and this one was always asleep whenever I went there so it was more or less the same thing.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
20 Jun 19
@nela13
You are so lucky after the war here they suffered a lot of disconnection between families and the spanish civil war caused the same problems also.
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@nela13 (59365)
• Portugal
19 Jun 19
@lovinangelsinstead21 I have a big family so I always had many uncles and aunts around me.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
17 Jun 19
Yes I still miss him even though I was not allowed to be the way I was wanting to hug him and all that.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
17 Jun 19
@Julie555
I was stopped in my tracks two times each time to try and hug him even though he was asleep.
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@Julie555 (4156)
• Russian Federation
17 Jun 19
@lovinangelsinstead21 I can understand you perfectly
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
17 Jun 19
Thank you I hope all Grandparents are appreciated everywhere.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
18 Jun 19
@didinedhia
Have a great day ahead.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
3 Jul 19
It was indeed a very hard life and not many miners got through it all and lived to tell the story.
I did not really understand why at the time being so small but now I do and its a tribute to all those forgotten men.
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@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
17 Jun 19
And yet your memories are fond, I wish I had memories of a grandfather but I have none.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
18 Jun 19
So sorry you don´have any memories of yours and that is all the memories I had of mine just him being in the chair of an evening that is when we were there and not very often either.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
20 Jun 19
Thank you and he was lovely a really nice guy and I love the way he sings it as well not too much flamenco pop just a bit.
@GreatMartin (23670)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
16 Jun 19
There is a grandparents day
Tells you all about it--just copy and paste.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
17 Jun 19
Thank you so much there is not such a day here at all I don´t know about England but here they make a lot of noise about Grandparents outwardly but the reall truth is the opposite.
Again thank you for the link.
They make much more of a fuss about Father and Mother´s Day I think the same should be for Grandparents too just saying.
