Quite touching.
Life is beautiful with all it's ups and downs. Now that some of them have left and some will be leaving, that's sad but you have created beauty out of it again by writing.

Poetry is a way of engraving people on black and white so that they live on forever...... So, this is what exactly you are doing when you start writing about them this week, of course you will smile while writing.

Staying tuned. Lovely post.