I lay with this man and no one else
for forty years or more.
I lay with this man and no one else
I love him to his core.
I lay with this man and no one else
since I became his wife.
I lay with this man and no one else
for more than half my life.
I lay with this man and no one else
when future shone so bright.
I lay with this man and no one else
as we walk toward the fading light.
Eileen Engle is a physician who served in several capacities at Doylestown Hospital including Director of Women’s Services and Medical Director of Cancer Risk Evaluation before retiring in 2019. This is the first and only poem she has ever written. She has been married for more than 40 years to Tom Mallouk with whom she has raised daughters Kaitlin and Meghan.
Poet’s Corner is curated by Bucks County Poet Laureate Emeritus Tom Mallouk and supported by a grant to the Bucks County Herald Foundation made possible by Marv and Dee Ann Woodall.
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