Love Poem No.10
In a world that’s restless
and runs on bruised time
I look over and there you
are – the wife of my days.
I’m afraid had you and I
taken a compatibility test twenty-two years ago we might have missed each other, might have sold our birthright of this future happiness for a moment’s hunger. Now by no means is that the case for all, but I believe it might have been for us. I’m grateful you and I were raised on just enough old hollywood movies to be willing to risk it all on the fool’s word, to jump smoke- eyed into something we are only now beginning to see.
taken a compatibility test twenty-two years ago we might have missed each other, might have sold our birthright of this future happiness for a moment’s hunger. Now by no means is that the case for all, but I believe it might have been for us. I’m grateful you and I were raised on just enough old hollywood movies to be willing to risk it all on the fool’s word, to jump smoke- eyed into something we are only now beginning to see.
I don’t know how you do it, but you do and I’m so thankful. We’re just at the twelve-years-married marker and I still use the inappropriate language of “soulmates” and “meant to be” because, well, I want to believe it.
Thank you, Sarah. I don’t feel that language is inappropriate at all…don’t stop believing.
Beautiful…
Hi, Donna. Thanks very much.
I feel this too, John. We celebrate 20 years in 3 short days. We were foolish and jumped rashly, even recklessly. And we paid for it, dearly. But God has taken the shards of our mistakes and welded them together with the gold of grace, and now we are here, totally changed. I can’t recommend our path to anyone, seeing as it was a brutal mess, most of the time. But I’m grateful to my core that this is my life.
Well, your comment just made me well up with good tears, kel. Love you.
Thanks, Kelly. Grateful to the core? Yeah, I know that feeling.
Especially touched by this.
Thank you for letting me know…it means something.
“willing to risk it all on the fool’s word, to jump smoke-eyed into something we are only now beginning to see.” 36 years and counting…and we’re seeing deeper still. Oh, that husbands and wives would just hold on – it’s a wild ride, to be sure, but so very worth it.
Patricia, some days its holding on or hanging in there, isn’t it? I’m encouraged by your 36 years.
Sigh. Yes. Thank you.
Hi, Diana. You are welcome!
This is lovely, John. It made me smile.
Michelle, thank you. I am glad it brought a smile.
Oh my! This is so good and so true for soapy of us. We are coming up on 32 years – we also jumped into this like with our eyes wide shut! If we had known what was in store for us we probably wouldn’t have done it as we always seem to put more emphasis on the wreckage than on the beauty.
Thank you for reminding us to see the beauty!
Blasted autocorrect!!
‘true for so many of us’ and ‘jumped into this life’.
Carol, ‘soapy’ made me laugh out loud – thank you! We wouldn’t know the beauty without the wreckage, huh?
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Absolutely beautiful.
You have a way with words.