Anniversary Poem

Would we still be holding hands

and looking out to sea?

Would we still be us,

forever you and me?

My life is now so different,

but some things remain the same.

I miss the way you held me

and the way you said my name.

But if that day had never happened,

would I just take you for granted?

The love we shared seems richer,

now you have departed.

Some days my tears flow freely

and I wonder if they’ll end…

My heart’s still crushed, quite fragile really,

can it ever mend?

You told me you’d be with me

and always hold my hand,

Then you were taken like a high tide

washes love hearts from the sand.

What’s left behind is memories,

precious days of joys.

And two replicas of both of us,

our most marvellous boys.

Each one of them a concrete link             

connecting back to you,

In the words they say to me,

and little things they do.

So would we still be holding hands,        

 looking out to sea?

I’d like to think forever

we’d still be you and me.