Michael Gelb Poet I do not know?

Joey (3)

To My Wife

When I was young at age seventeen 
I met my future wife who was nearly sixteen 
When I was age twenty one wild and free
I ask my love if she would marry me
Not thinking how fast time passes by
We got older and older my wife and I
Thinking back I did not know
How much my love for my wife would grow
On January fifth two thousand and nine
I lost my wife I thought would always be mine
You find out how time flies
When someone you love dies
We were together fifty plus years
Now my eyes are filled with tears
In a poem written by my wife                        
Something she had written early in life
She wrote, in her dreams our lips have met
You wait honey I will hook you yet 
When I sit and look at pictures of my wife
How pretty she was and how short was her life
It is over a year that my wife is gone
People say I must move on
My children are all now grown 
They have children of their own
I loved my wife so very much
And now I will no longer feel her touch

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James Fraser July 1, 2010 at 3:01 PM I do hope your kids are close, and also close to you so they can help you for your tomorrows. Reading your poems, you can feel the love in your words. You are of the old school, if the new kids on the block have a tad of your heart. The world may become the place it should be >> James