Is it really a year since we celebrated our golden wedding? Time flies by. My hairdresser asked me how I had managed to stay with the same person for tea length of time. I said because we love each other, are tolerant of each other’s faults and we are the best of friends. For our family dinner where not just my children And grandchildren came but many of my cousins, I wrote a poem:
Fifty
Side by side, hand clasping hand,
We have walked the byways of being
Together for the past fifty years .
At times, sitting beside the still waters of life
Relaxed, contented and gratified in our happiness.
Other moments we have lain in the sunshine
Basking in the brightness of our love for each other
Or slept in balmy, warm days of contentment.
Ignoring other people in our enclosed world.
We have stood on each side of the raging torrent
Crashing against the rocks and rapids of our anger,
Separated, alone and baffled by our fury and ire
Starch stiff in the rightness of our cause.
Only to watch as the torrent slowly subsides
As a passing storm into our love for each other.
In ffifty years we have become more than lovers
But friends and constant companions.
Sharing each others moments of triumph
Comforting one another in times of stress.
Now with confidence and calm we find
The tingling of senses and the excitemen
As hand in hand we continue life's journey.
This has all been tested in the lockdown but we have come through still lovers and friends.
I read In the news paper some time ago about a couple who had been married for over fifty years and had then been separated by being sent to different nursing homes. From this came my novel Saving Grace where the man attempts to be reunited with his wife.
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