CHANGED FOREVER
(Shari Ulrich)

Shari Ulrich 


Forty  years by her side
To have and to hold
All their lives
They raised up the kids
The best they knew how

Buried the youngest
And carried on somehow 
Now  he works in the yard
The children are grown

Till the day that she died
He was never alone
He keeps himself busy
The best he knows how

Buries the past
And carries on somehow 
In the wind that blows west
In a loved one’s last breath

In a moment
Lives change forever
Oh with fire or a fist
Or a lover’s last kiss
Changed forever 

He tells stories of war
And of hard lessons learned
The day his friends flew without him
And never returned

Of the day that they met
And the night he came home
With his lifetime of memories
He carries on alone 
 
In the wind that blows west
In a loved one’s last breath
In a moment
Lives change forever





(Contributed by =Ae= - April 2010)