Twenty-five years and on it goes.
Is this the measure of your mutual affection
with the score line showing rather more highs than lows,
enough to sustain this affectionate connection?
But there are yet more milestones for you both to surmount.
There’s Jade at thirty-five and Ruby at forty.
It’s too easy to overlook these, or else to lose count
and then be labelled thoughtless, or just plain naughty.
Yes, tribulations abound but plough on you must;
steady the tiller and go for Gold.
Provided your health holds out and you haven’t gone bust,
there’s no better way than this to grow enjoyably old!