When We Were Five
When you and I were only five
it was fun just being alive
to smell the air and feel the sun
with trails to walk and fields to run
When you and I were just sixteen
our new romance was so pristine
That sudden unexpected kiss
unveiled a hidden world of bliss
And when our childhood was through
and you and I were twenty two
you made my life much more worthwhile
the day I walked you down the aisle
Our lives were rosy and so sweet
and all the world was so complete
The years went faster than before
when you and I were thirty four
So young, I watched you slowing down
as sickness grayed your hair, once brown
When you and I were forty seven
was the year you went to heaven
Our time together was too brief
I sadly ponder in my grief
It's harder now just being alive
than it was when we were five
2/4/19
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