THINGS LEFT UNDONE

The weather is horrible today; cold, cloudy and rainy.  It doesn't matter, Jeanne and Bob and Nick and Izzy will be here soon, and Anne has already arrived.  Thursday will be family time with John, Amy and Brooke.  There is much for which I am thankful.  Yet, there's also a big hole in my life where Gwen was.  I suppose everyone who has lost someone they love feels that way; especially as the holidays approach; the feeling that there was so much more that we could have done together:

THINGS LEFT UNDONE

How could it have been time

for you to go?

There are so many things

left undone.

We never got around to

ordering that Slim Jim

at the Big Boy.

We didn’t get to see and hear

Celine’s show in Vegas.

There was no made from scratch

German Chocolate Cake

on my birthday.

Had you stayed

we would have done

all these things.

It hardly seems fair

to content myself with gratitude

for hours of pleasure we shared.

Yet, somehow hope remains

as life goes on. 

John A. Bayerl, November 22, 2011

There was a lot we didn't leave undone, Dear; that's the trouble with the good stuff. . . .we always want more.