<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340839" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Until death do us part</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Most of us at one time or another take this marriage vow. At the time it is usually a rote recitation because we are young and our attention is on other imminent matters. And that's the way it should be. Nevertheless, if we remain married and outlive a spouse we are faced with the same thoughts, doubts, questions and helplessness as the man in the following poem.<br>On line 14 he does the only thing he can do to express his love for her before the casket is closed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She lay upon a cold and stony bier<br>within an open coffin lined with silk.<br>She didn't look the same: Her face appeared<br>to have an ashen color; white as milk.<br>In life her comely facial features glowed<br>a lovely roseate but now she is dead<br>Forever gone from me. My head is bowed<br>in prayer and sadness all around. I dread<br>the coming years without her next to me.<br>Is life important anymore? I asked<br>myself. Her love is still alive but she<br>is motionless before me with the mask<br>of death and delicately folded hands.<br>I gently touched her golden wedding band.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Albert+Ahearn">Albert Ahearn</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340839" data-title="Until death do us part de Albert Ahearn" data-description="Most of us at one time or another take this marriage vow. At the time it is usually a rote recitation because we are young and our attention is on other imminent matters. And that's the way it should be. Nevertheless, if we remain married and outl..."></div> </div> </div>

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