over ceremonial fire
I like her smile he thought
He feels like a friend she thought
Do you know how to use a fork
he asked her,
on their first flight back to Singapore
She nodded yes,
a smile tickling the corners of her lips
Her convent education had taught her at least that much
and so they continued
to get to know each other,
life just a breathless adventure
Stolen moments hard to come by
in their rental flat with 3 other families,
they fled arm in arm to the movies
once wandering into a Chinese movie mistakenly
and staying anyway coz it seemed fun
2 kids and 4 grandkids later,
looking back at family roadtrips amidst life's ups and downs,
they both still remember
that first gaze above the ceremonial fire
It's been burning
close to 50 years now.
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for close to 50 years now
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