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Alone Together

Alone Together

Now I know
What our years will be like,
Down the road
When we are truly old
And no one comes around much anymore.

It will be very quiet
We will live in other rooms, mostly
Reading our books,
Stroking our cats.

But we will drift past one another
In our comings and goings,
There will be frequent touchings, and laughter
The sharing of many small,
Meaningful things
Our shared life has sown together
Down these many years.

We will have little,
But that little will be gold,
Gold silently glittering 
Through the moments ticking down
We will derive our greatest pleasures
From the simplest of things,
A skill we lost when we left our childhoods.

So let them laugh, if they will,
At our simplicity.
The decades we devoted to one another
Speak for themselves.

We shall lie down together,
Whenever we will,
And stay so 'til we decide 
To move into another day.
Each other's warmth will be the supreme comfort
Until the end.

Glasses of wine,
Some noble thoughts,
Amusement at our former selves
Unspoken awe at what we are becoming;

Our life has been an honor to us both
- Though more to me,
Because I know I don't deserve you.

But here we are,
With all our flaws and glories,
And I thank the Universe,
In it's blind magnificence,
For giving me you.

Let us live,
Let us sleep,
Let us dream,
Let us love

To the end of our days,
And know this -
You are my one and only love,
Now, and forever.

Let us join hands,
Face the future, unafraid,
And smile.

Copyright © William Masonis | Year Posted 2020

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