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Old now

Really old, 78

But beautiful

Stunning

Gorgeous

They gleamed

Glowed

Eyes dazzling

Skin shinning

Middle of the jungle

Long boats

Long Houses

Long days

Sleeping on floors

In huts with no doors

Borneo

Pinnacles to Climb

At 78

Skimpy shorts and t-shirts

Muscles flexed

Backpacks strapped

At 78

Both doctors

Met in med school

Fell in love

They were nice

Canadian nice

Real Canadians

They floated

They beamed

How

Why

What

So many questions

Tell all

Sit

First we fix broken Annie

Love a tale

Do tell

Love at first sight

Then marriage

Then home

And a practice

Out on the Canadian prarie

Life was good

Kids to come

Adventures to be had

Years passed no kids

Drinks

More drinks

No kids

More drinks

Then rows

Then drinks

Then no kids

I’m off she said

Bags packed

Love lost

Toronto bound

New apartment

New job

New life

She came back to sign the papers

One last dinner he said

Ok

Laughter

Remembered the good days

And then

An idea stirred in her head

Love is clever

Love is smart

Love always finds a way

To stay

What if

What if we don’t have kids

Say no

Not for us

Each year we work six months

Travel  six months

See the world

Doctor sick and poor

Meet new people

New horizons

New places

New stories

New adventures

And they did

One rule

Never go back to the same place.

First trip Himalayas and Tibet

They were 38

For forty years

They saw they world

No drinks

No rows

No kids

Just love

A love never seen before

And never to be seen again.

It was in their eyes

In the pores of their skin

In their touch

In their embrace

We’re old, 78

The youngest couple ever seen

Next year, last trip

Where to

The Himalayas and Tibet

It was the most beautiful of all

And sometimes rules have to be broken

What’s the secret

She smiled

We show up