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Husband and Wife In Later Life

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I would like to stay healthy.

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It is a noble wish

Demanding great effort

And myriad compromises

With the world

As it is,

Not as we fantasize it

To be.

For years I took health

For granted,

My health and yours,

Until the world as it is

Converged upon us both,

No longer the world as we imagined it to be,

Always fertile with hope and good abundance.

But the world extending backward to broken time

And forward to a superannuated time

When we will be apart.

For years you have been

By my side.

Now side to side

We take the drink of nectar,

Which is hope and memory mixed,

And look deep into the eyes of love

That nourish us daily

As we secure our

Togetherness in the harness

Of certainty.


When Mr. Eisenberg is not honoring his wife with his mellifluous poetry, he teaches math at a community college.