A LIFETIME

A lifetime

A marriage

Six children

Good times

Difficult ones, too

Sun shines

See your way through

Sorrow, making you cry

Laughter, until tears in the eye

Ups and downs

Never stagnation

Resigned to growth

Treasure the sublime

Unexplainable happenings

Gifts of love

Wormless apples

Woods forming chapels

Aroused by virtue

Accept all pain

Bear the cross

In His name

Many good things

Come to an end

Prepared or not

Angels are sent

They take away a soul

Leaving a hole

In the once swelled heart

Still never alone

Memories, we hone

Save the spectacular

Throw out the woes

There is truth

Also, make believe

Nothing alters

What we perceive

What is left?

No time to rest

Keep at it my family

You’ve had the best

We have lost two

Nothing we can do

But live our lives to the fullest

Steve Haarman

September 22, 2022, ^