Anniversary Poem

The Design of Our Marriage

We come to another milestone,

Families and friends crowd round us

In celebration of the sapling we have grown.

 

The foundation we laid together shows

That brick on brick of family

Melds each moment as husband and wife.

 

Through year on year of love, lockdown

And of strife and family trials,

We face the frontier that now stands ahead.

 

Though we grow stronger in patience and in trust

And friends and family too, despite

A world that  tries to damage both of us.

 

In all things we are stronger,

In a world that moves against us.

We bloom together despite these hardships.

 

Now I call your name and you recall back mine—

We brave a world that forces wind against our base

And cannot budge us strictly by design.

Our Anniversary–Today November 23rd

Already now another year has come

and we have passed five years–this very day.

Now five whole years may seem a lot to some–

It is but just a moment in the way.

But even now I reach out for your touch–

our language built with love and every night;

as most couples may never know as such–

A love that can exist within their lives.

Two years have gone–One hip–one trauma past–

But I have now grown stronger from your care;

I would not trade a moment of the last

Five years with you or of the life we share.

Already, now I choose you as my bride;

Each moment is our moment to behold.

I would have no one other by my side–

we seek our loves, our souls or so I’m told.