Marking Occasions

There's a treasure chest
full of distinctive memories
beautifully visualized and
created to celebrate times of
joy and happiness through
our long years of shared life.

Cards fashioned with love
and with care, humour
and pride to honour family
events. Children teased by
cartoons emphasizing their
interests and accomplishments
and their graduation from
one year to the next.

He is sequestered now
and I dare not intrude on
this creative aesthetic
for my birthday is swift
on the holiday horizon
vying with Christmas and
New Year's, for remark.

The years have passed
since we were young. Our
grandchild now the very age
when we met and our future
was inexorably set. Sixty
years later, you take up
pencils and pastels and
landscape me a blessing.