Fifty Years Have Passed. Fifty Years!

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Fifty years have passed. Fifty years!
More than half my eighty years ago!
I weep with grief, with wonder, silent tears.

Equally, the pain and beauty sear
My heart -- I can't let either go.
Fifty years have passed. Fifty years!

Time cuts through my heart with ruthless shears.
There's so much of my life you'll never know!
I weep with grief, with wonder, silent tears.

I had a second husband, a career,
Three children, seven grandchildren, and so
Fifty years have passed. Fifty years!

About which you know nothing. No one hears
My cries, has ever shared my private woe.
I weep with grief, with wonder, silent tears.

Alone, both husbands gone, my memory clears.
I'm with you once again, my love, although
Fifty years have passed. Fifty years!
I weep with grief, with wonder, silent tears.

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