Two Cardinals

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two cardinals

words and music glenn

we’re just like two cardinals,
we’ve mated for life.
blessed to be together,
through happiness and strife.

we’ve flown so high,
been struck so low,
but always together
there’s nothing that we can’t shoulder,
growing older,
growing older.

we’re just like two dolphins,
we swim together well.
living through changing currents,
we move in parallel.

through thick and thin,
better or worse,
till death do us part
it’s so much more than a verse,
when the water,
has gone dry.

I am like a rock
while you are like a shell.
a rootedness surrounds me,
in you the ocean dwells.

the solid earth
and the echoing sea,
the practical one
and the dreamer who leads us to something,
so much better,
so much better.

of course we knew
one would precede
the other in death,
taking the lead
to the unknown.

now I’ve no cardinal.
I’ve no dolphin.
I’ve no shell.