TILL THE END OF TIME

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Where do I begin to tell the story

of how great a love can be

Wishing not to wake up if it’s in a dream

Promising if it’s so, I’ll not stop to scream.

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Childhood memories kept flashing on my mind

Reminiscing the happy moments we were together

My mind video started to unwind

Seeing us the happiest duo ever.

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To the hilltop or rendezvous be

Playing, running, hiding from each other

When found, holding hands so merrily

Lying on the green grass, looking at the blue sky and wishing to be somewhere there.

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Indeed, the sky so vast was our witness

When we wished the day would never end

Confirmed by its blueness

that such will not come to any bend.

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but…

Time was not ours yet

to remain in such solitary innocence

for it has come for us to separate

to meet and see each other, we know not whence.

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Ah! Life is a mystery!

At first, it’s like a bird, sowing not, toiling not,

just flying as free as it can be!

However…

Instead of soaring up,

a twinkling of an eye

it went down below with its broken wings, no longer can flap

for they were hurt by a great blow.

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Yes, it was the time

when we were the happiest

but time broke it just like a song without a rhyme

then became the loneliest.

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Countless seconds, minutes,hours,days,weeks turned to years have passed

and now time came to present into full view

no longer a slave of the past

but a handsome,strong-willed and principled one is before you.

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Who then can separate us from our earnest and sincere vow?

Fame? Wealth? Envy? Insecurity?

Nothing! No one can break it, rather try to bow

and respect our endless love through eternity.

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Ooops. No, this poem is not mine.

Such a refreshing feeling to know that my sweet 72-year-old Grandmom still writes love poems fast enough to finish it within a split-hour which also particularly reminded me that really, I have not one romantic bone in my body. haha I mean,how can she write such without the corniest tone and the dumbest cliche’ words and share them with sincere giddiness blanketing her smiles?Maybe because of experience,yes? And me, how can I not stare dumbfounded and adore her?

Cheers to my grandmom for a love poem! I asked this from her and told her that I’ll be posting it here. :)

Maybe you would also want to read my not-so-romantic poetry? hehe

<3 Rheich

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