D A T E S

There are birthdays, there are religious holidays and, of course your wedding.
All of them found their way on the calendar , to keep you from forgetting.
Most importantly, in later life the date of your dear wife's too early leaving-
that is the one that with each lonely year you will repeat your grieving.

While we make note of the dates so they will force us to remember,
with each marked day the absence of loved ones burns like a glowing ember.
Were you to quote the special page when some absence you had to mourn
it would add up to a book, counting from the day when you were born.

Nobody lives forever and we are blessed when we can reach old age-
but it is a sad tale when you find relatives gone on the daily page.
In school we had to memorize birth and death of a well known human being,
the papers will make note of that particular person, you will be agreeing.

Some were heroes, some some were murderers, each year they are named-
if you love the good ones, hated the baddies, you cannot be blamed.
In the end the dates do not really matter, your own loss is in your heart:
they are are a yearly reminder of the time when you had to part !