THE KISS

    Your lips touched mine oh so softly

                                       in your Uncle's old green car

                                       the first time. So soft, I was surprised.

Then came a time of learning love.

19 red roses for my 19th birthday

Little things that meant a lot 

                                       Future hopes and silly jokes.

I gave you my Senior ring and you 

gave me more kisses and promises

of happiness and everlasting love

                                       I believed it all.

White lace and sweet promise

A time our lives entwined

We made our vows and began

a life together.

Our growing love gave birth to

a family, our house and our 

Life was rich in joyous chaos  

Watching our children grow.

Valleys of sorrow and peaks

of joy, we moved forward side

by side.  You were my all.

I was your "Bridge over Troubled

Waters".

Your eyes left mine, looked 

into another's. I was too

busy to see. You said you

loved me and your lips were still

                                        So soft, but the words 

didn't mean what they had.

On that day you left me, you kissed

me good bye.  It didn't mean

anything at all; you left and

The emptiness said it all.

Fifty years and more since that first

kiss, you kissed me again as you

Walked away with another. 

Your lips were still as soft. I was

                                         Surprised.

In my heart I know it  didn't

      Mean anything, really. Anything

       At all; the emptiness beneath the

                                       Kiss said it all; Judas' Kiss

       was just as soft.