A Tear

She sits in the rocking chair in the parlor
Holding her old frayed Bible in her hand
Her favorite passages are found in Acts
She knows things go just as God planned

She briefly thinks back to those yesterdays
When a young handsome man she did meet
She thought he was the greatest man ever
He told her that he thought she was sweet

It has been five years now since he left her
They had more than fifty years wedded bliss
She can still feel his arms as they had held her
She still remembers their first awkward kiss

A tear wells in her eye thinking about her life
How her four children have all moved away
She sits alone here in the old parlor and prays
That God would reunite her with him one day

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