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  2. ║                     What Did I Say                                  ║
  3. ║                                                                     ║
  4. ║          Thirty five years ago, I heard                             ║
  5. ║          "for richer", meaning that we two, would plan              ║
  6. ║          to build what now, is vanished like a dream.               ║
  7. ║          "For poorer", meant beginning, not surcease.               ║
  8. ║                                                                     ║
  9. ║          "For better" meant an end to walk-up flat,                 ║
  10. ║          Salvation Army garments, things like those.                ║
  11. ║          The car, the house, the cottage by the lake...             ║
  12. ║          "For worse" means letting go, of what we'd got.            ║
  13. ║                                                                     ║
  14. ║          "In sickness", time would heal, "a day in bed..."          ║
  15. ║          the broken bones would knit, the heart as well.            ║
  16. ║          "In health" --- thanks be, I still have some to boast      ║
  17. ║          despite the stiffened joints and aching back.              ║
  18. ║                                                                     ║
  19. ║          Life is a bell curve, now becoming flat ---                ║
  20. ║          or crested wave, dissolving as years pass.                 ║
  21. ║          But still, I huddle spooned, into each night's embrace     ║
  22. ║          and waken, in the morning, to your face.                   ║
  23. ║                                                                     ║
  24. ║                Copyright (c) 1993 - Joan Latchfor                   ║
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