Another Anniversary
\nby cricketjeff on January 31, 2012.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nShe was late that April evening but he knew that she’d be there,
\nWhen the golden start of sunset could add drama to her hair.
\nNever one to miss an entrance, she had held his breathless gaze
\nIn a restaurant in Paris on that greatest of all days.<\/p>\n
First a waiter took their orders, with an air of bored disdain,
\nThey were left to talk of nothing and the journey there by train;
\nWhat they ate is long forgotten with the wine that washed it down
\nBut they knew their meal was better than the finest in the town.<\/p>\n
When they left, a mite past midnight he’d become a mighty king,
\nCrowned with all the love she showed him when she took that tiny ring
\nAnd he never lost that moment, never felt a minute’s doubt,
\nHe was filled with love forever from a spring that can’t run out.<\/p>\n
They returned two short years later, for the perfect honeymoon
\nWith the same disdainful waiter on a sunny afternoon.
\nAfter ten years, after twenty, Paris called and they replied
\nIn a city made for lovers they were swimming with the tide.<\/p>\n
Was it thirty years or forty when the waiter raised a smile?
\nThen a special golden wedding with the table decked in style —
\nHe still watched her every movement, still a love-struck teenage boy,
\nIn the presence of the present he was certain to enjoy.<\/p>\n
There are diamonds on the table in another tiny ring,
\nBought to light a bright explosion, and to make his angel sing,
\nBut he cannot smile to greet her, long-laid plans are overthrown
\nAt a table set for two she sits alone.<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nInspired by this image [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%201_files\/977.html] by Stephen
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