Through a Glass, Darkly
A Poem I wrote about my first wife, Betty, following her death in 1982.
©1982, 2005, Bob Beeman
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  Suddenly there she was, and me with her,
Betty ! Alive again ! And both of us kids.
On swings,
Her on my left, dressed in white.
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Swinging higher and higher,
Then jumping off and running beneath the trees.
Just the two of us,
Laughing and playing in God's garden.
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But then I woke to the darkness,
And the dreary noises of a fallen world.
And all at once,
The swings seemed far away.
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I married Betty June Pair in 1972. Together we had 2 children. She died 3 months after our 10th anniversary in July of 1982 at 40 years of age. This poem was inspired by a dream I had about her some months later.

The title is a reference to a passage in the Christian part of the Bible: 1 Corinthians 13:12:

For now we see through a glass, darkly;
but then face to face:
now I know in part;
but then shall I know even as also I am known.

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