72 years (tribute to the yeager’s couple special)

For 72 years I have been married to you and I said, “I won’t part with you”, for 72 years I said, “We won’t part.”

They said, “We’re old-fashioned”, we took our wedding vows to heart, ‘til death do us part.

I feel that The World had other plans it seemed, after the accident, you were put into a coma; you suffered internal bleeding and a broken neck.

If only we had stayed in that morning, it was a nice summer’s day, the heat gently passing through our bodies while we’re asleep.

You wanted to go for a drive, it was 8 a.m.

Down we went on the darkened road, the collision happened so fast, all I remember was silence and my breath caught by the scythe of Death.

I’m already dead, so I can’t explain the phenomena that allowed me to tell my story.

We were taken to hospital; we spent our last moments in intensive case. We were in the same room. We were holding hands, even though we were barely functioning.

I died later that day, but my heart was still beating on the monitor.

I said, “We won’t part”, but I couldn’t keep that promise in the end, I’m afraid no one would of been able to keep that promise, but I told you every day because I thought this day will never come.

Who would have thought 72 years would just fly by, I still felt like I had so many things to say to you, even though we were close to 90 now. I know now that you can never have enough of life.

I just wish we could of stuck around a little bit longer, I was not ready, but in my mind, I’d knew you would know this somehow.

If you wanted to know how the monitor was showing my heart beat, it was because we were holding hands and her pulse was going through me until she died a few minutes later.

Tribute to The Yeager’s couple who died on October 12, 2011.
- Michael Daaboul