True love never dies and so my light
\nburns everlasting for you, my one love.<\/p>\n
Did you love me?<\/p>\n
Oh, how I loved you.<\/p>\n
I know I loved you, music man,
\nthirty years hence in my dreams.<\/p>\n
Do you think of me?<\/p>\n
Each day you cross my mind.<\/p>\n
Three guitars I never play,
\nremembering instead your kiss.<\/p>\n
Did you want me?<\/p>\n
I never wanted you.<\/p>\n
Not like that, the way one wants a toy.
\nI need you now, the way one needs to breathe.<\/p>\n
Would we have married?<\/p>\n
I wish it could have been.<\/p>\n
Oh, love of my life, I wish I had said yes
\nwhen you asked if I\u2019d thought of marriage.<\/p>\n
Am I still in your heart?<\/p>\n
Three decades I have with you in mine.<\/p>\n
You\u2019re 67 now. 68 this year. 70 in ’23. We\u2019re old.
\nWe\u2019re gray. Stiffening muscles when we awake.<\/p>\n
Would we have survived them?<\/p>\n
I fear them to this day, yet regret saying no beneath their darkness.<\/p>\n
Insanity, my love, kept us apart. That pit of snakes from which I escaped.
\nThey would have bitten you, too, in their vastly evil ways.<\/p>\n
Will we have another life?<\/p>\n
Yes, I know we will.<\/p>\n
When all else is gone, and this world has ended, three things remain:
\nFaith, hope, and love. And the greatest of these is love.<\/p>\n
You will wait for me at the light.<\/p>\n
And, I will always love you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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