Golden

Instead of pumpkin pie, that year,

We had a wedding cake,

One reason why our T-Day marriage

Was a big mistake.

 

The families gathered, most of them,

With travel at its peak.

We should have planned it, really,

For most any other week.

 

Aside from all the agita

A holiday can cause,

Some tension with some relatives

Was reason to give pause.

 

Yet looking back at pictures,

There is joy in all the smiles

Brought together for our wedding day

From distances of miles.

 

Since that was fifty years ago,

Some who were there have passed.

Perhaps they’d be surprised to learn

Those vows we took did last.

 

Though I am not, I must admit

That even had I known,

I couldn’t have imagined how

These fifty years have flown.