Happy Anniversary

Twenty years ago to the season,

I found my way,

I found my reason.

In those early days

It was my heart to give, and you were the one.

I fell in the most serious of ways.

And I was real, real gone.

I can remember walking you to all of your classes,

I was late to all of mine our junior and senior years.

Somehow the teachers all knew that reasons like mine,

don’t come on hall passes.

I would wait in the morning by your locker for you arrive.

I shared a locker with a friend, just to be closer.

I don’t think I even used mine.

For me sun rose and set with seeing you.

The most important moment in my life was,

and will always be when will I see you next.

Two dinner Sunday nights, just to stay a little longer.

I vacuumed and dusted your house many more times than I ever did at mine.

Anything I could do to accelerate when we would have free time.

I mean it was a little crazy when your mom said we needed to read

for thirty minute.  C’mon what story….

Could compare to the history

we were making.

I moved tons of rocks so that it would be done,

and when you got home we could go,

I was real, real gone.

I always knew if you were home when I came to your house.

If Bandi was in her post on the couch,

we both felt the same thing.

When will she be home?

I hated waiting for noon on Sunday, you were at church.

I prayed at the church of you,

my salvation came at 12:15 when I got to your house.

I personally rang your phone off of the hook, endlessly.

Saying goodbye at night was always a special touch, with your mom on the phone.

I’m sure she cringed when I said “I love you”.

Being 16 knows no fear.

All those years ago and it’s only gotten better.

Eleven years we’ve been married,

Four miracles have joined us.

What a beautiful joy we are surrounded by.

Sometimes I think back to twenty years ago when we met.

I can’t believe that it has all gone the way it has.

Better than any dream I could have dreamed.

All of the beauty in my life begins with,

and comes from you.

It always has and always will.

I love you