You and Me

They were both awkward when it came to the opposite sex. Yet, shyly they met. And then waited in each others thoughts and dreams.

A year later, he wondered. A query. She moved back east wanting a change. He wrote to her. She wrote back. A love story created on paper turned real when they met.  

Thirty-eight years later their hearts are inseparable.

My Wife, My Friend

My wife's friend came to visit.
She stayed a couple of days,
And as she said goodbye,
I saw my wife had some teary eyes. 

Longingly, I said to myself, 
I wish I had a friend like that,
And it occurred to me that I did...
      My wife. 

Something in the Sound of Rain

 

Something in the sound of rain
Something in its patter
Isolates a lonely man
Amidst the wildest chatter;
Surrounds a man under shelter
Keeps him in his place.
Something in the sound of rain
Makes you hide your face.

Everywhere you turn, it's there
There's no way to escape it
Yet with all its inconveniences
Who would want to forsake it?
It drives your soul within yourself
To look within your mind
And those who dislike the rain
Fear what they might find.