Look Forward

We look for laughter, happiness, and life. 

Don’t seek a husband, nor a wife. 

Life alone can be such fun, 

Considering only ever one. 

One’s own company can grow terse; 

From tiny cradle to the coal-black hearse. 

Trying to find our own soulmate, 

Just like waiting at the pearly gate. 

Yet we seek to ever find love to bring peace of mind. 

Long ago, another life. 

She a husband, he a wife. 

Issue from the unions grown, 

One and one and two alone. 

Her son and daughter bound in love, 

His two sons from heaven above. 

Life’s strange journey onward roamed, 

Each parent found themselves alone. 

These children are born of different love, 

At once apart but not above 

Finding family in the other 

Children of a different mother. 

Love, look forward and ever go on