Simply Time

With Crystal Ball I might have found 
Some way to weave my way through time
Instead I played without the rules
Did it my way throughout the schools

Meandered free from guides or maps
Ate my meals from plates on laps
Camped and rambled, cycled too
My only aim - my love for you

Single till I sang your song
Wed while we were still so young
Cats and flats and tube train rides
Cinema trips and theatre asides
Walking miles down country lanes
Hobbling from the blisters pains

Now and then there'd be a tiff
Life's never perfect, oh what if
Pardon me while I reminisce
My poetic licence still exists

So work was just my hobby made
Into jobs for which I was paid
Until later I joined the retail trade
Years went by, I sold the shop
We bought a house with the cash I got
Acquired a dog who chased our cats
And still we ate from plates on laps

Houses changed, our lives did too
For a while you were lost to view
Back as one we multiplied
Two girls from us were derived
Another move nearer to school
A third child born who is no fool

Sadly you were soon unwell 
At first the doctors couldn’t tell
Mighty was the blow that day
When they said no cure to allay
The failing heart within your breast
A transplant might be for the best

Some days after our son was two 
While I was there, visiting you
The doctors said you had one last chance
And we took the news with a mutual glance

Harder still those several weeks 
Intensive care, drug induced sleeps
Tubes, machines, alarms and more
Until you slipped through the final door

Goodbyes were hard for all who came
Many said it was a shame
But on with life we had to go
Three children had to deal with woe

Does time heal, or simply pass
Those old sayings might make you laugh
4000 days have been and gone
Will I join you before long?

©Rhumour
April 14th 2008

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016



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