Step by faltering step

our love was born.

Step by step we tested it.

Step by step we built it.

Step by step, child

by child our family grew.

Step by step the bonds

were forged in love.

Step by step we gave

and in return received.

Step by step and

day by day and

month by month and

by year by year our lives

have marched in unison.

And now step by step

you must give your heart

time to find a new rhythm;

step by step but to a

new march, a new tune

a new way of doing things.

a new way of seeing things,

a new way of living.

One you have earned,

one you deserve,

one you must heed;

or we will not progress

onward in step, by step.

 

David Garlick, Victoria, March 1996