Saw the cardiologist today

asked the tech if all was okay

Could she see any sign

of a broken heart, it's

now eight years we've been apart

She always listens - lets me speak

it would have been

sixty-seven years this week 

since she wed my heart.

The tech said it looked intact

but the doc would call

to confirm the fact

I smiled and thanked her

she knew the game.

Each time I go, the talk's the same

Back home again and heaved a sigh,

another day without her . . . another year gone by