On a flight from San Diego, California to Hartford, Connecticut I penned this poem.
It was one week before my wedding day.
Always and forever
My love for you will grow
Together or apart
It’s you I love, ya’ know?Away from you
My heart grows weary
Apart from you
My joy is lowWhen you’re near me
My heart lights up
When you’re close
My insides glowSoon that day will be upon us
Soon our lives will be joinedI cannot picture my life without you
I can’t imagine being so alone
Now we’re together, reunited again
This time forever, forever my friend
Most of our courtship had been spent apart from each other. We developed our relationship through many letters and phone calls. My wife says my letters are what captured her heart.
I believe it was that and the fact I had full employment and benefits. The rest was merely potential and the desire to work with raw materials.
Admit it ladies, every woman who looks at a man as a future mate says to herself, “Hmmm. I can work with that.”
When was the last time you wrote something substantive — a letter, a story, a journal entry, etc. — by hand? Could you ever imagine returning to a pre-keyboard era?
Yep. Most women are suckers for a guy who can write poetry or love letters. Good job!
Yes. Now she’s pleased if I write a shopping list.
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You are right, there is no ways I would have married my husband without full employment and benefits. My sister’s husband often writes her poems I think it is lovely. My husband does not have an affinity for words so we try and work with his strengths. Which are plenty, but not poetry or writing. Fine by me because I can write my own poetry (pls just do not read it to him, it’s too many words!)
I’m always curious about the things women want to change in their husbands. They choose to marry the man, then begin an improvement program anyway.
I wouldn’t change a thing, I love him just the way he is. Treats me like a queen (undeservingly so), and thirteen years married this Monday 🙂
Lol, I suppose that’s coz the pink shades of love fall of after a while.
After a while, they just don’t seem to be needed anymore.
haha at the full benefits comment. Your poem for your then fiancé is sweet.
Thanks. Your encouragement propels me onward. 🙂
Fantastic, keep at it! Cheers.
Awesome! I journal almost everyday with pen and paper. I have reams of paper sitting around … most of it random thoughts and some more substantive. 🙂
It’s how I began as well. Recording my thoughts regularly, then shaping them into letters.
Well, maybe it’s time for another poem? LOL