Elder Years

They shared certain traits
and values even as they passed
into their teen years becoming 
firm companions sharing space
and time and experience. Strangers
took them for brother and sister
but no such siblings should ever
regard one another as they did
even as she was forbidden to
see him by parental diktat.
Back then they were the very
picture of youth and discovery
introducing themselves to the
adult world around them, sharing
discoveries and disappointments
excitement and aspirations. Seldom 
apart, their appearance still 
resembling that of siblings 
as though their spirits once met,
 reached out to meld indivisibly
into a cohesive whole. No longer
after 65 years quite as vivacious
yet equally devoted, the years
trundle on and so does a world
transformed by global events,
taking them along on the journey
to the future long held as destiny.