(23) An Ode to Eileen’s husband

(On behalf of Mary’s auntie, Eileen, who lost her husband in 2016 after 55 years of happy marriage; the verse is to be carved on her husband’s grave.)

代美莉Eileen姑姐草擬祭其亡夫詩一首,遵從其意詩中包括＂樂、真、愛、聖、惠＂五個字。詩成于2017年1月草坪老廬

六十年前君不識

因緣圩五理連枝

翱翔比翼傳真愛

聖惠明朝樂未遲

  

In the beginning, you were unknown to me.

Then for fifty-five years, we lived like an entwined tree.

With love, we soared to the sky, wing to wing.

In Heaven, tomorrow, we shall sing!

(Translation by Mr. Yee Kwong Kwan)