Rejoined in Him

The springtime of romance had slowly passed

Into the glory of an endless year

A wedded walk through all eternity,

Absent worry and detached from fear.

Most I remember were her deeps of eyes

Cerulean and shining like the seas

In whose swimming depths one could feel

The undying light of ancient dynasties.

But suddenly this gift was wrenched away

And now my heart from sorrow cannot abstain

I tended her and tried to help her through

The cruel and endless hours of her pain.

She spoke but little in those failing days

In battle with an unrelenting foe

Lethal with its multiplying cells

That chemotherapy could only slow.

Not knowing why such beauty must depart

Alone I sat beside her bed and wept,

All joy had fled with one who was my joy,

Now God was her companion as she slept.

Then I saw beauty burst the form-bound shell

And peace within her fragile form descend

Though I face the barren winter of my days

And all my nights in lonely vigil spend

Yet this I know that love death cannot cleave

Rejoined in Him we shall no longer grieve.