Walking Together
          Beginning with a line from Stanley Kunitz

by Wilda Morris

I have walked through many lives
as I’ve journeyed through the years
and you have walked through mine.

I was loved and taught to love
but I’ve moved a dozen times.
I have walked through many lives

and I’ve left good friends behind.
When I walked into your life
and you walked into mine

then our very lives entwined.
Hand and heart together joined
we have walked through many lives.

Almost fifty years have passed
since we lived our separate lives,
since first you walked through mine—

since the day that I said yes
as we strolled beneath the pines.
We have walked through many lives;
I’m so glad you walked through mine.




The first line is from Stanley Kunitz, “The Layers,” The Collected Poems (New
York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000), pp. 217-8.

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