For my beloved, on the occasion of our fifth Wedding
Anniversary.
God gave
me a gift,
And that,
my Princess, you are,
With you I
can lift,
My life’s potential ever far.
Not that
there was anything wrong with me,
But you
came into my life,
And gave
me wings to be free.
And still
now—five years on,
I find I’m
freer,
To join life’s throng.
Bristling with hope the adventure
is ours,
We approach it with the fettle of
two to espouse,
Upon life’s uncertainties we find
a connected glow,
I know that together we cannot but grow.
Within the unrealised dreams that
we both do share,
There exists between us the
confidence to care,
And in visions supreme—to hold on
we must,
Until death’s day when ‘we’ becomes dust.
So much possibility lay before us
now,
There can only be hope for us to
endow,
Beyond instants of despairing that
keep us awake,
Yours and mine, together we stake.
Liberating lessons are attached to
our love,
To know in advance we’re kept from
above,
When we keep our hearts open and
eyes to the ground,
The truth is revealed in ways to astound.
Then there are days when we’re
lost in our play,
Enjoying each other’s presence as
if it were all day,
In tickles and cuddles and starry
night kisses,
I know I glory in the fact you’re my missus.
Our covenant with each other is to
stay the course,
We, together, are a
divinely-sponsored force,
With God in the middle we can only
succeed,
As our Lord from Heaven has solemnly decreed.
Winsome and fair and sensitively created,
Seriously, I’m so glad that we’ve been
mated,
A girlfriend, a wife, and a best
friend to me,
How could I feel anything other than glee?
Seasons
they come and go as they please,
For us
it’s my prayer there’ll always be ease,
But in
sickness and struggle, in want and need,
You shall be mine, mine indeed.
***
Over our five years, my Loveness,
we’ve spent only two nights apart. I love sleeping with you and being
intimately involved in your life. You enliven and transform me. You help me
feel in so many ways. You allow me to be, and that’s nothing to be taken for
granted. I love that we accept each other’s weaknesses.
On occasions like this I love the
time we can spend with each other simply reflecting on how good God has been.
© 2012 S. J. Wickham.
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