[Shared by an anonymous guest author, healing after her divorce...]As I thumb through the pages of the calendar
They are full of appointments and places to be and things to do.
My gaze finally settles on a day that has remained perfectly empty.
Nothing has been written, the spot is bare:
No appointments, birthdays or lunches listed there.
To the passerby, you would think it was just another day
A day with no expectations, meetings or schedules to keep,
A day that rarely happens in a life so busy.
Usually one would breathe a sigh of relief for such freedom
And yet my heart aches, for this is no ordinary day...
For you see that day was my wedding day so many years ago:
A day highly anticipated, dreamt about and planned for
A day of laughter, joy and happiness
A new beginning between two people so deeply in love
They had waited so long to find each other and now it had finally happened.
Nothing would stand in their way.
Together they would conquer the demons that lurked in the shadows.
This day was to be celebrated by one and all,
For this was to be the beginning of an eternal family.
As time went by, the demons grew larger, more powerful and harder to ignore.The time came when they took over and the young love was crushed.
Resolve to stand together and conquer all was lost and a chasm began to set in,
Until the day when the divide could no longer be mended.
Two lives that had become one were now separate.
Promises were left unfulfilled, dreams dashed and futures faded.
Lives that should have been shared were now shattered, all hope lost.
Although this day will never bare "Anniversary" again for us
My heart will always remember
And although that date may fade in his mind
I pray that he will always remember ...
For that was our day, our beginning.
©2009 Marie Calder Ricks/www.houseoforder.com. (Photography by David N. Ricks. Used with permission.)
