The widow's list

Life is what you make of it

Life is exactly that...

You get to choose the paths ahead

You have to choose for yourself...

It is nobody else's choice but yours!

Do you look at the widow's list?

Or do you get stuck upon...

The much shorter one...

The wife's list...

Those few things that grate and grind...

Always at the back of your mind

The things that annoy you every day...

Simply because you choose to live that way

Do you see only the downs in life?

Are you ever that unhappy wife?

What happens when time is gone?

You are left all on your own...

Do you suddenly see the other list?

The one that you made when time began

The one that you decided to use back then...

When first you wanted to welcome in

A new married life, together for all your life

Those beautiful things you needed to expound

To your mum and dad...all those things

That made him the one for you...

The good things that mattered then...

Ah it is so sad that we forget...

About that precious list we made

When time was yet on our side...

When we were young at heart

Young in mind: ready to become

Husband and newly wedded wife...