Stories

1937 just another boy

Raised in a house with no furniture 

Poor but happy, he made himself useful 

Farm hand, mechanic, and everything in between

Drank smoke like water

Has the lungs to prove it

1940 just another girl

Raised in a house too small for another

Fatherless, what a scandal

Wouldn’t let it hold her back

A victim of polio but a survivor too

1959 they found each other

Same year they were married

They moved countless times

Each adventure better than the last

Watched their country step on the moon 

While they made leaps of their own

Children of the depression

They lived a life of little 

So their families could have it all

2021 embarking on their final adventure

Remnants of another time

Unable to throw away expired milk

Or tattered dolls 

They call every device a computer

And a wallet a billfold 

What a foriegn language they speak

Their grandchildren think 

Seeing them only in passing 

When they listen to the stories they have to tell

The greatest gift they have left to give