Numbers

Valentine's Day. A day for loving, kisses and hugs. Not a day for grieving or tears but to me it is once again a reminder of numbers. Numbers, not 3 valentines but 2. Not a family of 5 but 4. Only 2 daughter in loves someday not 3. Two sets of grandchildren not 3. 2 people home alone. Two people in the cemetery. One person standing barely breathing struggling to see the beauty in the day of love. One in the frozen cold ground. Wait, no the body is there but the soul, the being, is with God in Heaven. One person alone in the cemetery. Numbers.