Dear LPG.

I hope the poem I am offering today does not depress any readers.  I suspect that many can identify with the sentiments that this poem provides.  It is difficult to get to the age of retirement without having lost someone close to you.  

In general, we become acquainted with grief much younger in life as we hear about distant relatives and people with whom we have had passing relationships and moving on from this existence.  We move through school, further education and jobs while friends come in and leave our lives.  They emigrate, move to different jobs and places and become people we used to know, and this is the way of the world of a younger person.

As we get older, the news broadcasts that inform us of the passing of famous people, whom we almost subconsciously assumed would always be there, become another reminder of such things.

But nothing prepares you for the loss of someone really close, although time and experience does heighten our memories and remind us of how important they are to us.  

Today, I offer a very personal memory in the hope that it helps those widows, widowers and anyone who has felt this loss, no matter how long it has been…  

                                                                        MEMORIES OF YOU

Those gifts and flowers that were often presented to me were very beautiful.  The red roses were much redder than I have ever seen before.

The cards were exquisite, the messages so touching; I felt as if I was the most loved creature in the whole wide world.

And so for a brief moment I took a stroll down memory lane to recapture the life that we once enjoyed together.  There are no flowers, no pictures, no cards to look at, and you are not with me to express those simple words of love.

But the memories I have are more than enough for me.  In my heart and mind is the picture of our Wedding Day; when we strolled up the aisle and took our Wedding Vows.

It is such a pity that you’re no longer in the here and now but how grateful I am for those memories of happier times.

I’ll cherish them forever; memories of you my ever-loving spouse and I look forward to the future when we will meet again… sometime, somewhere.

Until then my beloved, all I can say is: 

May you REST IN PEACE… FOREVER.

©2015 By Beverly Gooden Wilson

…and LPG adds some information on today’s celebration…

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