AS SHADOWS LINGER, SECRETS DWELL.
A LOVE HELD SILENT, AN ARDENT SPELL.
SOME DECADES DIMMED UNDER THE WEIGHT
FIND JOY FROM SORROW, BUT MUCH TOO LATE.
YET IN THE QUIET, FLAMES PERSIST
OF MEMORIES HARD TO RESIST.
AS CHOICES MADE STILL WOVE A THREAD
A BOND UNBROKEN, NO WORDS NEED SAID.
TWO HEARTS ENTWINED THROUGH SPACE AND TIME,
A HEAVY ROAD WAS THEIRS TO CLIMB.
IN EVERY GLANCE, THEIR STORY TOLD.
OF PASSION FIERCE, YET SOFT AND BOLD. ~TAMARA MCLANAHAN
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