Love Poem: Best For Last
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Written by: Sarai Virden

Best For Last

For all in this old world I've missed
this latter half is the sweetest I insist

For all I lost I gained the more
a family that's precious 
beyond asking for

My step daughter she opens a kindest heart 
her soul she gives as a work of art
her precious daughters
new grand-babies to spoil
beautiful, genuine with laughter truly joyful

Every day I'm living a dream
so perfect for me perhaps I'm asleep
I always wondered what this would be like
here in the latter half of life

A glassy lake on independence morn
the men frying fish we caught the night before
riding my buckskin on Pacific Crest Trail
with the family in tow tail to tail 

Love and sweet adoration
fills the air of day
gone is the smell of bottle rockets
marking when independence came

Stars and Stripes 
our freedom rings
in this heart and this life
Can you believe...?  I finally grew wings

Ah the wonder and twists of fate
when you think your too old and it's much too late
when you wonder if God has turned his back
only to find he saved the best for last

Even if I had to do it all again
lovers lost and the loss of friends
painful as it was and sometimes still is
it was all worth the happy I'm starting to live

Never stop believing 
your dreams will come true
though the search leaves your soul 
battered and bruised

You never know what joy may come
though you hum to the beat of a solitary drum
not really knowing why something's wrong
but knowing when it's right come the dawn