P + J = True Love 4-Ever

The story, repeated time after time

They took turns as the tale’d unfold

And although we knew it all line by line

Hearing it never got old

***~***

The date wasn’t theirs, it was but a ruse

Their star-crossed-love friends needed to meet

Paul drove his friend, and Joyce couldn’t refuse

To deliver the bride, so sweet

***~***

Clandestine lovers vanished right away

Leaving them with dates poorly selected

With eyes on each other, they drifted away

Their poor dates, soundly rejected

***~***

“I do hope they got on,” Paul laughs each time

The story is told to their children

Mom says, “I’m sure they managed just fine.

I only had eyes for you then.”

***~***

They married only three months from that day

Together for sixty-three years

“ ’Til death do us part,” so they did say

She still looks for him through her tears

***~***

Love at first sight, love until their last kiss

“It may be a while before our eyes meet

I’ll see him again, I understand this

And love will go on, always sweet.”