Older Now And Yes, This is the Life I Wanted

Looking back through the wrong end

Of the telescope I see my young self

An ingenue, so insecure about so much

Flying madly off in all directions

Had I not married the love of my life

At a very early age, I do believe

My story, my life, would have culminated

In a far different ending, one I fear

This - this is the life I wanted

and I could never see - not for years

In fact, I needed to mature, get old

actually - before I fully recognized

That the security of home and hearth

The love of a good man and children

All the things I poked gentle fun at

in my youth - turned out to be the prize

Oddly - while travelling regularly between

Toronto, Montreal and New York

and finding my work exciting somewhat

I didn't realize that the exotic trips I longed for

Would not take place until well past

My middle years when my love and I

Began touring Europe, making love

in those grand cities we'd promised

Ourselves we'd see "someday"

Well - Paris, Rome - and the rest ...

Someday is now, and we're old enough

To appreciate you and each other

And yes, this is the life I wanted

After all - and now can see

Those children we were never

Sure we wanted and that now

We know we could not do without

Are having children too proving

There are more reasons to live

This life and never grow really old

S.E.Ingraham©