Together For An Eternity, For My Precious Grandparents,My Tribute

She kissed the tears, the wizened forehead,

And the artistically carved wrinkles by the time on his face

They were born and raised by their love

They had together, entered the death’s alcove

Wept silently, upon his journey’s finale, even the heavens above

Oh she’d have penned an ode to his guileless nature, his reticent might,

His love for her, if he had ever allowed

He fought valiantly against the grips of his end

She prayed courageously to the god, omnipresent

If the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline,

No matter how many times it's sent away

Then how could she let him fall in the fiery Hades

Even if her infinite, beseeching prayers failed

She was once coy, beautiful like a spring dawn,

Epitome of gentleness and dewy-eyed innocence

She now sat by his bedside with gray in her hair and a withered gait

His hands were held in hers and he lay there forbidden

From leaving her behind in the cruel, unavailing world all alone

He was torn in agony, at the heaven’s gate

Entangled in the death’s web, unable to return to her embrace

Slow, soft terms of endearment she spoke

In his ears, all night long

To wake him up from his deathly sleep

It never happened on that day of that week

Holding him one last time, she rendered her future futile

She left her body a few moments later
To follow his spirit into their next adventure

To be together with him for an eternity

And with him to reunite.

PS:  "Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away." These lines are by Sarah Kay and they reminded me of the beautiful love that my grandparents shared all their life and even in their passing away that I decided to use these lines in this tribute.