Love Beyond Fifty...for Roy and Lyn Alim
Posted on Friday, 18 July 2014
LOVE BEYOND FIFTY
…for Roy and Lyn Alim
By Apolinario Villalobos
It is said in the Bible that
God first created Adam,
but for him not be lonely
He created Eve
from Adam’s rib,
and from them, hence,
the world was filled by man.
Adam was created out of love,
and so was Eve
as she was from Adam’s rib,
so that the two must never be separated.
This, God has decreed on earth:
By the sanctity of marriage -
and for better or worse
let not even death
make them part.
With man’s frailty
caught in the web of worldly temptation,
love could be so brittle
as to crumble
in the mere touch of sheer delusion.
Without patience,
though tempered with understanding,
for some to be together even for just a
year
may seem like a life in hell.
Love beyond fifty
is a love tinted with golden devotion
that emanates from the hearts
of two people in love,
for they throb with desire
to fulfill the heavenly scheme
that they are meant for each other,
just as there could be no life
and the world is not what it is
without day and night,
so will their love endure
from here till eternity
even as they have reached
the golden milestone of fifty…
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