Birthday Wish
Today I received a call from a friend that is very dear to me,
He called to say goodbye and his soul would be set free,
My friend is a wrestler, fighter, and has a black belt in Judo,
But I fear He’ll lose this fight with cancer he got a few months ago,
At the end of our conversation He said if we never see each other again please remember All the good times we’ve spent
And in his weak voice I heard him say I love you my brother,
I love you with all my hearts content,

How can I tell you more than I can know?
All the oceans in me fall away.
Precious thoughts, when wild emotions blow,
Pause fleetingly, but can't prolong their stay.
You are the dual anchors of my life
As inner tides well up and then decrease;
Nor can I see you else but man and wife,
Not two but one, a single source of peace.
I need the love you harbor for each other
Very much as if it were for me:
Each day with both a father and a mother
Rests within, a gentle ecstasy.

It never does get any easier
Knowing that you have gone away
Hard to believe it is been so many years
And it happened on this very day

I woke up this morning all cloudy
All teary-eyed and quite sad
But it wasn't until someone told me the date
That I knew why this day is so bad

Because it is your Anniversary
Not one in your life, but of death

Happy Tenth! A milestone that seems
As natural as stones upon a hill,
Placed by wind and rain and swollen streams
Plunging down to work their wayward will.
Yet our will alone has placed this stele
That stands amid the wilderness of time,
Each choosing each each day that we might feel
Nearer to a grace we can't define.
The loves that last are cultivated flowers:
Half pure mystery, half purely ours.

Happy second anniversary!
As time wears on, the newness wears away;
Passion turns to pleasurable play;
Preference becomes necessity.
Years are markers towards a transformation
Slow and unobtrusive as a tide
Elevating vessels side by side,
Changing both, but ever in relation.
On this, your second, then, may you rejoice,
Nestled in the chamber of your choice,
Destined by your love for celebration.

Forty years together you have loved,
Opening a door to love for me.
Romantic hearts bequeath a harmony
That proves more rich than any life might prove.
Years pour like water rapidly downstream,
Yielding harvests gleaned in fields to come,
Each waiting for the heart to bring it home,
Accumulating in an undreamt dream.