Five years ago today

The realization took my breath away

How can so much time have passed

For something that was supposed to last

Sixty-seven years ago

I urged my beating heart to slow

When my eyes came to rest upon a vision

That carved in stone a life decision

Bestowing all that truth allows

In three short years we traded vows

And in the following sixty-two

We shared a love that grew and grew

But life is not a fairy tale

Where happy endings all prevail

It's a journey swayed by fate's fickle choice

Paying no attention to your voice

And so today I sit and stir my mind

Yearning for those days I'll never find

But celebrating her remembered laugh

Singing to her photograph

1936/2017