A Life Together (part-2)

   
She  
brought up tri-lingual in a foreign land  
spoke eight languages  
and simultaneously translated other people’s dreams …  
   
He  
brought up in strange boarding schools  
refined rough nuts and bolts  
‘till they resembled acupuncture needles …  
   
When they met (aged 40 and 41)  
they slowly left behind  
the nightmare shadows  
of wars and missionaries  
   
and wove gold  
clothing themselves in creative possibilities,  
establishing a new home  
formed by two people looking in the same direction  
   
brightly decorated  
with open gratitude for each other,  
and cultivated a garden of beauty    
fruiting abundantly with loving-kindness.