Change, Not Loss
"trouble and strife", is old ( and inappropriate) Cockney rhyming slang for 'wife'.
Heart shaped hopes, hollow then filled with time and intent, Memories linked together, separate and joined, once and forever. A beat, a pause, a rhythm for two lives.The highs and lows of a good life revealed.The flutter, once romance, now in gentle decline,Carries always the echo of that which appealed. And so my love, drum beat of my life,I measure my time in enduring hints of "trouble and strife".