July 4th

they gave me a lei of red, white and blue and a neon bracelet that glowed in dark when the sun went down and the stars came out fireworks were shooting in the sky at the park thirty-nine years ago were fireworks of a different kind I was a bride of just one day and on my honeymoon that was a fourth of July, that I will never forget all of those years passed much too quick, it ended much too soon we built a life, we lived on love, we had a couple of kids sometimes were hard, the ups and downs of marriage settled in I may have taken for granted, that you would always stay you left too soon, though not your wish, it still came to an end