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30 Years Ago
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Tuesday, August 22, 2023    Rated "G" by the Author.
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30 Years Ago

Our hopes and dreams and wishes in a package with a bow,
A guy who does the dishes, (just in case you didn’t know.)
We stood there in a dream come true and everybody knew,
I can’t believe, how long ago, that day I married you.

I used to feel so lost as all the folks say, “Life’s a game.”
But growing up means letting go of any kind of blame.
We can’t demand of happiness that everything must last-
But make our peace somehow with all that happened in the past.

I slew my fears to make you happy, gave us both a son.
Both of ours, enduring memory, two of us were one.
Different world than I imagined, tossed the map away-
Somehow though, we’re both still standing, thirty years today.

Now divorced from you and dreaming, see the way life goes-
Never more a star crossed lover- thinking that he knows-
I could repeat the pattern now and share my name once more.
It wasn’t love, but only you that closed that special door.

John H. Bidwell


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Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on August 23, 2023
Certainly very hopeful beginning, like all marriages seem to be. But I was hoping for a better conclusion than a divorce. It was sad to see that happen. And, it is usually the woman that makes the decision to part.

I also went through a divorce about 40 years ago from a very short marriage of about 3 years. And, by coincidence, my partner and I, still unmarried have been together for 30 years and will probably until one of us is gone.

Ron


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