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It was a new year's party Footfalls of the cups and glasses Dances of the eyes and tongue The time swung with the music She wore a light pink lipstick A lithe body of twenty A handndsome cascade in the eyes Time forgot to fly Across the table Sat a young man of about twenty one The brilliant eyes there and then won Her thoughts The river and the yacht The conversation spurred Further invitations and meets For the hungry heartbeats They got married One day in the evening Were into a starry swing Under the dream-filled stars He talked of the Venus and Mars Mentioned the milkyway and black holes Adjusted the rose in the buttonhole She recited Eliot under the oak and chestnut The time rippling in the two pink huts Just a few weeks later When he was about to unveil the nature Looking into the time and space Amazed at its grace To find out If God really did not play The dice with the universe He was diagnosed with a deadly disease She stood by refusing to be daunted We will not allow it to be terminal She was emphatic As in the wheel chair He would amble Though the doctors gave no more than Three years of life The river resolved To stand by the desert The chlorophyll by the grey leaves Eyes keeping close watch on the disease She pieced together the broken sun Aggregate of many a moment of the nun Weaving his tattered confidence With the wools of warm love for the husband A fragrance of the garden The home and family Rested exclusively on her shoulders Though overwhelmed They carried out the responsibility Ungrudginly The disease relented Its progress slackened The stars in the night sky celebrated The togetherness unbridled He travelled on From the summit to the next summit Done it, she exclaimed ________________________________________________________ March 21, 2018 Together we are strong - Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Silent One Note : As I was not personally involved in what happened, I understand the poem might not fit into the frame of the sponsor. Still considering the strength of the togetherness highlighted in the poem I am entering it for the contest
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