Love - A Life Together Poem by Paul Warren

They were together fifty wonderful years
Through all the highlights and the tears
Both worked and raised their family together
Until they retired and thought they'd be together forever

So the years rolled on and they were never apart
They worked at the church Op-shop and had a heart
For their friends and neighbours when needed
And they were not rich in money but in love they exceeded

One day she was in the kitchen and he was in the yard
It had she hadn't heard him and went looking worrying hard
She found him collapsed and called for an ambulance
He'd had a stroke and their old life was alas now spent

He needed care and so he went to a Nursing Home
And every day she took the bus and walked to there alone
The stroke had left him where he didn't know much
But she stuck at it and sat with his hand she did clutch

But there were other plans for her in God's call
And one night she died in her sleep and that's all
It was not long after that he didn't last long then
So they were joined together again in the end.

© Paul Warren Poetry