Different Slants

Seeing the World from a New Angle

Romance, After Sixty…by Robert M. Katzman

Filed under: Love and Romance,Poetry & Prose — Bob at 8:32 am on Sunday, May 1, 2011

(copyright May 1, 2011)

 

For me, and perhaps for you..

 

Romance is rubbing her feet

While she’s sleeping

Snuggling while she’s awake

 

Romance is dancing in the kitchen

To music only we remember

 

Sitting in the driveway

Talking

Dreaming

Planning

Smiling

 

Romance is agreeing

Not about what our children didn’t do

But what they did

And remembering the rocks along the way

 

Romance is walking slower

Through a cool leafy forest

Because she needs to walk slower

Even on a level path

 

Once we hiked up

A smoking Vesuvius

Things change

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