Poem a Day 2: Second Chance

Robert Brewer's suggested topic for the second day of A Poem a Day (PAD) Challenge is a doozy.  I can only share my poem, knowing it came from my first reaction to his prompt.

Second Chance

If I stumble, if I fall,
after all these years we've shared,

and now in our eighth decade,
would you give me a second chance?
I don't even have to ask.
Your morning smile says 'Yes!'

And yet doubt remains: for one day,
you will leave me.
Or I will leave you.
I really don't know how I would live without you.

That hard-won belief we'd meet again,

in a second life or heaven, doesn't hold true.

I only believe there is a beginning

and an end.

For now, the sun rises each  morning,

you smile, and I hope

to cherish each day.

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