A Poem For Ester At 60 Poem by RIC BASTASA

she puts on video the song
that made her fell in love
'and i love you so'
she takes the song seriously
singing it with all her heart
and i know she is turning 60 today
and i see a woman singing
the song on top of her voice that
a friend says she cannot sing it with her

i tell her oh ester you have not aged at
all at 60 and she says that the girl on video
is not her but her youngest daughter

she is a widow and retired from work
i thought it was her as she really looks like her
and she says she is the narrator in that video
and i hear the sound of an old woman
still grieving for her husband.