May of '75

It All Started May 2, 1975 The Day This Man Took This Woman To Be His Lawfully Wedded Wife They Saw Their Share Of Struggles,Grief, Hardships,and Strife But Hand In Hand They Faced The World Together This Man And His Wife The Cards Were Stacked Against Them An Uphill Battle It Often Seemed They Did Not Have A Fairytale But In The End Love Would Prevail Between This Woman And This Man Thirty Years They Shared Together For Richer Or For Poorer In Sickness And In Health In Good Times And In Bad Before This Man Would Pass Away Right In Front Of His Wife How Would This Woman Go On Not Knowing What To Do How To Make A Single Cup Of Coffee Or Just One Plate Of Food How Could She Bare Waking Up To An Empty Room She Grieved Tirelessly She Often Questioned Why Why She Had Been Left Behind This Woman Who For Thirty Years Had Been This Man's Wife She Had To Find Her Strength Within And Her Will To Go On She Had To Comfort Her Children And Learn To Lean On God Although She Never Stopped Loving This Man Eventually She Would Find Peace Though It Was Not Easy She Learned To Live Life Without Him Though It Was Never Part Of The Plan On That Day In Early May of 1975 When These Two Were Wed This Man And His Wife Sometimes Things Will Happen Even Though We Did Not Plan Things We Can Not Fathom Things We Will Never Understand The Time Came Two Short Years Later When The Doctors Came And Told This Woman We Are Sorry It Is CANCER Now The Children Of This Man And His Wife Would Have To Find Their Own Answers With No Parents Their To Guide Them Give Them Comfort Or Advice They Would Be Left With Their Own Questions Of How... And WHY... In Loving Memory of My Mom and Dad- Tiffany Abbott