While on our Annual Biking Holiday over the weekend, tammy2tall gave me a birthday card that literally brought tears to my eyes.
On the cover is a photo of two empty chairs on a sunlit porch, and the caption reads “On the Porch, Many Years From Now”. Inside is the following poem:
You will sit on the swing,
I will sit in the chair,
And the fragrance of lilacs
Will hang in the air.
I will tell you a story
I’ve told you before,
We will laught (like the last time)
And tell a few more.
Then perhaps we will say it,
And perhaps we will not,
But both our old hearts
Will be thinking this thought—
That it’s good to be known,
And it’s good to be there,
Where the fragrance of lilacs
Hangs in the air.
and she underlined the two lines indicated.
I don’t know… maybe I’m just becoming an Old Softie!
