TWISTS & TURNS:

  You know, I find it hard some days
To sort out all the many ways
Our lives could go - The twists and turns
To have you here - How my heart yearns

  For all the times that passed us by
I wish for them - It makes me cry
Because I realize the truth ---
Old age has overtaken our youth

  We've seen, and done, and shared so much
Al - I miss your soft, caressing touch ---
You're standing right in front of me
Yet you're not who you used to be ---

  I long to feel your guiding hands
Strong and sure - Just like that man
I married many years ago ---
I love you still, but I miss you so!!!

  Yet, through the misty haze appears
A glimpse of you - Yes, you're still here!!
My goodness, what a grand surprise
I see my reflection in your eyes!!

  Others cannot comprehend
The magnitude of changes when
Your love of a lifetime seems to disappear
While his body's standing up right here!!

  But I believe, within my heart
A love like ours can never part ---
We stand, as trees - tall in the storm
God shelters us and keeps us warm

  Whether life reveals in time to us
The reasons why we've journeyed thus
I know that God's given you to me ---
And Al - with you, I'll always be.........
 
 c2000 Dorothy Womack **Written for Al & Misty Kearney