A CAREGIVER’S VALENTINE

                                                                -Karen Brenner

A CAREGIVER’S VALENTINE

We were impossibly young and so beautiful

When we met and fell in love

You were the cool guy from the big city,

I was the shy small town girl.

I bring you photographs of those days long ago.

You look at me and smile and ask me who those people are.

I take your hand.

It is warm and strong in mine.

You don’t remember but you know that we belong together.

I tell you the stories of those two young people.

You listen intently and study their faces.

And look into my face with wonder in your eyes.

I have come to understand that it doesn’t matter

that you no longer remember who we were then.

It only matters that we can sit and hold hands

While I tell you stories of those two young lovers:

                         You and Me