How will I cope?
I
don't know
But
I’ll have to
Life
has dealt the cards
And
I must play them
Or
fold them
Quitting
is not an option
So
I will have to cope
And
I will,
I
must
I
have to get on with it
Stop
feeling sorry for myself
And
play the hand
Life
has dealt me
And
by determination
Win
the pot
I so remember that perfect day
When
I first saw you
You
were walking in the meadow
When
you came in view
I
so remember that perfect day
When
I knew you were the one
As
we danced in this meadow
In
the afternoon sun
I
so remember that perfect day
When
you won my heart
And
we held hands in the meadow
I
never wanted us to part
I
so remember that perfect day
When
first we met
And
we made love in the meadow
As
the sun began to set
I
so remember that perfect day
When
you won my heart
I
scatter your ashes in the meadow
And
my heart breaks apart
Twenty years have past
Since
we stood side by side
It
wasn’t all hearts and flowers
At
times it was a bumpy ride
I
think it’s been an achievement
And I feel an intense pride
I wouldn’t have spent a moment
Without
you by my side
I
don’t regret a single moment
Though
there were tears along the way
But
there was laughter also
And
there was love every day
So
here’s to the twenty years
That
have happily gone before
Twenty
happy years of love
I
hope we have twenty more
I must read between the lines.
To find the reasons why
So when you say, "I'm sorry",
Look me in the eye
So that I might know
If I caught you in a lie
If you wish to achieve
The greatest love
It involves taking a risk
And like achieving
The greatest of goals
Sometimes it means a great risk
But nothing worth having
Comes easy or risk free
You blew soft breath
On
the embers of my memory
And
breathed new life into me
Resuscitating
a redundant heart
Until
I unlearned how to fear
I
unlearned how to doubt
I
unlearned how to exist
Then
I felt the warmth of the sun
Once
more on my face
I
felt the transformation
From
loneliness to loved
Josh and Sophie had been together for a significant amount of time, but had recently separated and when it happened, the only people who were surprised at all by it, was them.
It was the general consensus
among those who knew them that there were never two more incompatible souls to
share a life than they.
In fact, the couple had spent much
of the previous two years constantly bickering and arguing.
The problem was that Josh was
too laid back and easy going for Sophie, who was very pushy and way too
ambitious.
In short Josh didn’t want to
climb the greasy pole and Sophie didn’t want to settle for less than the best.
Kay had been in love with Josh
since they were at school, she was in the year below, and she had fancied him
like mad, but she could never seem to catch his eye.
So, he ended up with Sophie
and Kay married Colin, who turned out to be the most boring man in Britain, so
she divorced him after a year.
She had been pretty much on
her own since that, not that she hadn’t tried to find someone else, she had, but
the problem was they never had Joshua’s smile, his sense of humour or indeed
his cute arse.
So, she had finally resolved
that if she could not have Joshua, she would end her days
as a singleton that was until one day when fate took a hand.
Joshua and Sophie’s divorce became
final and part of the divorce agreement was that they should sell the house
that was once the marital home, and of the two of them it was Joshua who was
tasked with selling it.
Which was why on a fateful sunny
spring morning, Joshua walked into an Estate Agent’s in town where the senior
partner was Kay.
