Milton P. Ehrlich
It Is True!
Life is nothing but a dream.
I was dreaming my way through
when I hit a merciless clunker.
After being madly in love for
67 years with the woman
I shared my everyday life with,
it came to a painfully sad ending
when she left me at the age of 90.
Why can't I now follow her example
without discombobulating my remaining
loved ones who would not like to see me
join my wife on her journey to face eternity.
It's all part of the same dream.
Bio
Milton P. Ehrlich, Ph.D. is a 90- year-old psychologist and a veteran of the Korean War. He has published many of his poems in periodicals such as Wisconsin Review, Red Wheelbarrow, Poetica Magazine, Christian Science Monitor, and the New York Times.