A Poem to My Wife on Our 29th Wedding Anniversary

Pandemic Twins

We’re a playful pair of panda twins

Pandemic pals both wearing grins

While walking streets so slow and sparse

It’s made life seem a wicked farce

We’re wondering how to pass this test

We fear the worst, hope for the best

We share the unknown every day

We diligently make our way

We keep our distance, wash our hands

Tune in for where today’s count lands

Read our tablets, pump our weights

Rejoice because we’re happy mates

Were I to lose you though, I’d die

I wouldn’t even want to try

To live without my panda twin

A prisoner in the dark within

You’d feel the same, I know you would

But thinking like this does no good

Life goes its way without a code

And leaves us on this unmarked road

We walk it best when holding hands

We’re intertwined like ginseng strands

Have been for nearly 30 years

Our love outlasting all our fears

So now like panda twins we play

And laugh and cuddle every day

So far the COVID monster roams

Through other people’s hearths and homes

But if he dares to come this way

I know exactly what I’ll say

“Get lost you fucking parasite!

We panda twins are here to fight!”

Together we would do him in

Against the odds we always win

Our home’s our sacred shielded bower

Our marriage is our super power

And so we celebrate tonight

We panda twins take great delight

In all these years we’e been as one

How very much I love you, Hun!