Learning to live alone

 

We’ll grow old together, my whisper

Her hug tightens with invincible strength

Wheel chair bound I’ll take care of you

Till your last breath

Her voice echoes my vows

 

We sit immersed in cricket chirping

Porch swing creaking

As our trajectory takes us deeper into love

Each mounting sigh drawing the knot

Into taut intimacy

Her shadowy visage gazing deep

Like hawk eyes

Following the movement of my face

 

Her words rolling like lullabies

Treasures saved like heirlooms

Curios collecting like precious jewels

Deep in the bedroom of my mind

Sweet smiles lost in the roads of our travels

Forgotten highways where our bliss bloomed

Like wildflowers in the trails of time

Remembrance a bittersweet tea

Sipped in solitude