To Jean

Re submitted to celebrate our thirteenth wedding anniversary (05 05 14)

And you my love, now that age and infirmity
Has dampened physical expression of our love
Still show your truth in small gentle ways
Filling my days
With the warmth of your devotion

“No you sit there, stay in your chair I’ll do it”
It’s against my wishes but I let you
Because you want to
Bringing my morning tea you stroke my head
Planting on its silvering crown a kiss,
Token unspoken of your deep affection
Setting the mirrors of my memory to reflection  

Our lives have run together like twin rivers
Inseparable since their confluence
Having flowed over rocks, through turbulent rapids of life
Over cataracts of despair and have emerged unscathed
And now sweep slow through deep pools of tranquility
Across sunset plains towards the far crystal sea
Of eternity

Had I but one day I would share it with you
If an hour I would hold you
If but one breath I would surrender it to you gladly
In a joyous kiss
Of purest bliss