She had a good marriage
It lasted 40 years.
No kids but lots of love.
She felt like they’d be
together forever.
But now she’s alone.
She wonders what is
the point of love that
doesn’t last, that death
takes away.
She often cries herself
to sleep over her loss.
She felt lucky to have
a perfect husband.
Now she’s bitter
about her temporary
perfect husband and
how life is cruel to lovers.
Sometimes she feels
she can’t continue
to live without him.
Sometimes she feels
like killing herself.
But changes her mind
when she realizes
death will do that for
her in her lonely and
final years.
She holds on to a
hope that she’ll see
her husband again
when she dies.
But she realizes that
it’s only a hope and
she may never see
her perfect husband
again, and she cries
herself to sleep.
Bob Boyd