She Was

She started her new life
Ten dollars in debt
And that’s all it took to get started back then
A trip to the courthouse across the state line
No one could stop her, she had up made her mind
He was eighteen, and she wasn’t
But she said she was
And never thought twice
And came back home
As my daddy’s wife
She just shook her head
When her momma said,
“Are you sure he’s the one?”
She was
He took a job
And farmed on the side
He made the ends meet
But she kept them tied
Changes would come to their little world
She said, “what would you like? a boy or a girl?”
And he said, “are you?”
And she said she was
And never thought twice
About taking the next step in building their lives
Soon there were three
And she tried to be everything to us
She was
Those precious moments
Turned into years
In what seemed like a blink of an eye
I held her hand as I leaned down to ask her
“Momma, are you ready to say goodbye?”
And she said she was
But she thought twice
Holding my hand as she let go of life
Daddy always said, “a woman like her would be hard to give up.”
And she was
If there ever was a picture of love
She was