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Thinking back to our beginning Of things we used to do Lord, I know my mind's still willing I wish my body still was too The years have passed by quickly I blinked and they were gone In time we both got sickly But, our memories linger on. We used to go out walking To the park and in the woods Just spending time together And we talked and times were good Now it's just a memory Now it hurts to climb the stairs We may no longer go out walking But the memory lingers there It's not that we were active But our world was larger then Now, we're confined to samll spaces Our world was larger to us then Once the snow comes we are housebound We're together, not alone We talk of when times were better And we talk how we have grown Disabled doesn't live here We won't say words of that kind Even though our body's dying We both still have our minds Distractions don't come easy There's nothing for us to see We still revel in each other For we have no family We'll be partners forever We won't be so long apart For when one dies the other follows Soon, from such a broken heart In sixty years that we've been married We've had friends, but most are gone They never knew that our small secret Was we let our memories lead us on They say the past is gone forever The future is the place to be But for us our futures leaving And the past is where I'll be I've more years now behind me That I have got left to live But as long as we're together My love to you I'll always give Remember when we'd go out walking Just us two, those times were fine I'd wish that in our future We could do it one more time. ..
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May 1, 2012
May 1, 2012 at 7:48 PM UTC
Sixty Years
Thinking back to our beginning Of things we used to do Lord, I know my mind's still willing I wish my body still was too The years have passed by quickly I blinked and they were gone In time we both got sickly But, our memories linger on. We used to go out walking To the park and in the woods Just spending time together And we talked and times were good Now it's just a memory Now it hurts to climb the stairs We may no longer go out walking But the memory lingers there It's not that we were active But our world was larger then Now, we're confined to samll spaces Our world was larger to us then Once the snow comes we are housebound We're together, not alone We talk of when times were better And we talk how we have grown Disabled doesn't live here We won't say words of that kind Even though our body's dying We both still have our minds Distractions don't come easy There's nothing for us to see We still revel in each other For we have no family We'll be partners forever We won't be so long apart For when one dies the other follows Soon, from such a broken heart In sixty years that we've been married We've had friends, but most are gone They never knew that our small secret Was we let our memories lead us on They say the past is gone forever The future is the place to be But for us our futures leaving And the past is where I'll be I've more years now behind me That I have got left to live But as long as we're together My love to you I'll always give Remember when we'd go out walking Just us two, those times were fine I'd wish that in our future We could do it one more time. ..
#love#heart#death#loss#remember#nostalgia#family#marriage#couple#aging
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May 1, 2012
May 1, 2012 at 7:48 PM UTC
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