This lighthearted look at the coming holiday of Valentine’s Day is just a reminder to NEVER give up hope. There may or may not be change in the air, but if you never breathe in how will you know. Taking chances is hard sometimes but to quote the old workout saying of the 80’s – No pain, no gain.
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Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – straight
Today is a tough day for me. It was thirty-three years ago that I was thinking about our destination number one on our honeymoon only a few hours after we had said I do, taken pictures and done all the tradition reception activities. We lived as a couple for nearly 22 years. The last few were hard. Alcoholism twists and torments a family until it is hard to recognize happiness. I separated from my long term marriage sure I had failed. But an amicable decision to divorce kept us on track as friends. And an extremely short 2 ½ years later he died.
I will always treasure the good years we had and the WONDERFUL daughter I was left with to go on. But after 8 years now, the death has still not killed the last of my love. I will always keep it tucked away. But I do yearn to find someone and wonder if there is a chance for a second “true love” for me.
I dated someone for many years, it was nothing like that “true love” and did not last. In middle age I wonder if I will ever get that chance for butterflies in my stomach and yearns when we are apart… I have to always hold onto hope.
I sit and wait
For anybody
I let my thoughts wander
To you
I see no hope
For us
I feel too great a distance
Between us
I dream of a future
With him
But in reality I wait
For anybody
Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – anybody
The treatment was experimental, but his last hope. They would fly to England and be there before the end of the year. Oh, what a wonderful New Year it would be if this were to stop his cancer.
They had heard about the treatment through a group of other cancer patients on Facebook. Someone from France had traveled there to try it and initial testing showed he was having success. But others have not, and many have had severe side effects. They knew it would never be approved in the United States at this rate, so they cashed in their life savings to try to save a life.
Six months later, he was not better, but the progress had stopped. It proved to be sustaining, but had they started treatments too late? He was already weak and could only do a fraction of what he used to be able to do. But he was still alive and able to love his family; that to him was worth it all.
Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – experimental
Leigha Robbins 