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I thought I had found true love at age
seventeen
There were many hidden things to later
be seen.
We married in the summer of sixty-eight,
Not realizing divorce would be our fate.

Life was real good for the first nine
years.
We didn't have many worries or fears.
This union was blessed with two girls
so fine.
Then life began to shatter this heart
of mine.

Betrayed and rejected, I felt emotionally
torn.
It seemed all I could do was weep
and mourn.
Life had surely ended when he exited my
heart's door.
I couldn't bear to think what the future
held in store.

I began searching for I didn't know
what...
All I knew was that my heart was
aching alot.
I was drifting hopelessly like a
ship without a sail.
Just where I was headed, it was
difficult to tell.

A couple of years later "this man"
came into my life.
I was afraid to trust when he asked
me to become his wife.
I had "been there, done that,"
once before,
Didn't know if I could emotionally
handle more.

"This man" gently and patiently
wiped away my tears.
He so tenderly quieted my nagging
fears.
Now it wasn't easy putting our
families together.
Even in love there are stormy
times to weather.

Life together has been sometimes
sunshine, sometimes rain,
Our realtionship at times a little
strained.
A blending of these two elements
there had to be
So we could learn to fill one
another's needs.

© By Martha Franks 1999

I have learned through life's experiences
that being there always for one another is what
true love is all about! "In sickness and in health
for richer or for poorer I thee wed!"

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