Wedding Feasts

It's nice to have a group blog to go to when I can't post on my own.

And today I can not post on my own.

My husband's friend, my cousin's husband, passed away on May fourth.

My family usually doesn't read my blog, but on occasion they are bored enough to see what I have been up to....

So I am hiding here today. I never gave them this web address. They'd have to be bored enough to click my blog roll to get here, and I don't think that will happen.

It is Tuesday night, and I won't be able to sleep until this poem is written, and at least scheduled to post. So scheduled to post it is... Thank you, fottsp friends, for indulging me once again.

Weddings

Your speech was simple and sweet

The toast you shared was an Irish blessing

You were an excellent best man

the perfect choice to pair with my maid of honor

You both must have agreed

because two years later you were an even more perfect bride and groom

So hopeful, so loving, so loved

And the joy shared by our family and friends increased exponentially

We danced at each other's weddings

Prayed for and with each other at weekly meetings

Saw one another at family functions

Joined each other for dinner on occasion

You took care of yourself and your beloved

No caffeine, NutraSweet, or sugar...

Fresh fruit juice flavored your carbonated water

yet you were careful not to impose these views on others

But cancer does not follow any rules

It steals the life we all had known

It doesn't care who you are, what you've done, or how much you're loved

It just thunders in like a marauding army

So our happy times soon ended

You wanted to be alone in your suffering

Just you and your beloved

No one else to share what was left of your life

There is no more hope for happy times together

The ones we shared years ago will have to suffice

Until we meet again at the wedding banquet

Prepared by God for His Son and those He has chosen.