Like a cold wind, you breezed through in one <br />unguarded moment without saying goodbye... <br />Leaving me alone in chills, in emptiness, in loneliness, <br />Now I must carry on life meant for the two of us. <br />God was there - watching and listening to my pleas and prayers. <br />But His ways are strange, and it was time... <br />The finale of our life together is still a page unwritten. <br />Too much was unsaid against the rhythmic sound <br />of a breathing machine... and, yet. <br />You smiled in spite of the pain - a synthesis of twenty five <br />years of joy, of love and life, of togetherness. <br />Now...all these are but memories simmering <br />away the chills and pain of parting <br />God meant it to be...so I must live life twice as much. <br />walk the remaining path twice as much. <br />breath the same air twice as much. <br />resound the chirping of birds twice as much. <br />greet the sunlight twice as much, <br />delight those rose petals twice as much- <br />Until my turn comes...and this one last page <br />will be written when I finally rejoin my <br />ARVIND.<br /><br />Aida Alcala Joshi, Ph. D.<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/arvind/
