Life's Journey

In over sixty years, what really
has changed? In the vibrant memory
of ourselves as mere children, we
orbited one another, the gravity
of curiosity and awakening
drawing us to a certain tandem.
Little did we know that would
preface our future. But it was
most certainly thus realized.

And in that time we loved and
cherished, bidden by our need for
one another as our lives became
as one, inextricably interbound,
woven for the eternity of human
existence, which is, in fact,
determinedly finite in nature
and elderly expectation.

Now we sometimes react in
amazement at the fleeting years,
graced by each other's presence.
All of life's transitional stages
experienced as a brace, and even
birth itself, yet another sharing.

From early youth to the formation
of intelligent maturity we passed
our days and years of exploration
and discovery, enriched by the
comfort of abiding care and
deep-seated, shared love.

We are equal accessories to this
binary light. Existing not as
natural extensions each of the
other, but rather complementary
necessities to lives fully lived. For
we have journeyed much, together.