IF I LOVED HER

Old woman white hair walks with a stick back home from her daughter’s who watches from the doorway of her house husband sat opposite.
He’s sitting on the top bar of the barrier between a walkway in front of a row of five houses and the pavement and road below.
She walks the dog with her daughter and uses both top and bottom entrances with and without.
When they say, ‘goodbye,’ mother or daughter watches the other home. They probly phone when they’re behind locked doors to check and let the other know they are too.
I might do the same with my mum if I loved her like the daughter loves hers.