Love And Music

Love and Music

About once a year I watch the 1980 movie, Somewhere in Time, starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. The story of a timeless love is superb and the music, "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" written by Sergei Rachmaninoff, is beautiful and haunting. I sit with tears streaming down my cheeks, caught up in the magic of the moment, lost somewhere in time.

The movie, and particularly the music, inspired me to write this poem for my wife commemorating our 52nd year of marriage in 2001.

Somewhere in time, I wonder
...a dream or reality?

Though years have passed and
so many memories dim,
it is there I still see your
flashing dark eyes, smiling lips.

We fashioned dreams together,
our future bright and lasting.
We were young and together,
and time was without meaning.

Our time would last forever
and nothing could interfere.
But it vanished...disappeared
and age has taken its place.

How can we know we were there
as memories dim and fade?
Youth has gone away from us
but somewhere, some place, it lives.

One day we'll surely return,
to that time so long ago,
and recover that moment
when we were so very young.

Wiser now, but back again
to where time has no meaning.
We are together again
in the place our dreams began,

Somewhere in time!

And now, fourteen years later in our 66th year of marriage, we are still together...Somewhere in Time.