taking care of each other's needs
and for thirty years they resented
all the time that they had given
because it seemed to both they had
received less and less over the years;
and at a time, when age put them
both at risk and when they needed
each other more than ever before,
there was a separation of the heart
and mind and an unrepairable soul;
the years were kind to both and to
many places they traveled seeing
sights they never would have seen
alone or with another, but that made
no difference when it came to living
in the same friendless house of theirs;
their children gone forever as none of
them ever wanted to return to a home
that had no love inside and all their
friends stayed away as well not having
the desire to listen to their feuding;
they retired to a home too big for them
that provided plenty of space for them
to remain apart during the day but
complained about the chores associated
with it, knowing the alternative would
leave them worse off than before...
and when the time finally came that
one of them was no longer living, the
other one mourned so deeply that in
a few months was found dead as well.
20 May 2022
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