Thought Experiments
In melancholy moments
Tinkering with the past
What would have happened
If a letter was read?
A question asked?
Something not left unsaid?
I have run all those
Thoughts through
It is wonderful to do
A sweet dream askew
Of reality’s pose
But no matter these
Thought experiments
I just can’t get past Her
And what She meant
Even in reveries
The peak none can surmount
My one thing with no doubt
God smiled, again I found love
Not just because of my kids
But because of who She is
It is hard to think about Her and others
Without comparisons, which isn’t
Fair to any, nor wise to do
But it comes down to a few
Reasons it makes sense
She is like the ocean or a glacier
The planet’s movement
Irresistible with time
She entwined herself in me
Like the roots of an ancient oak
Over years and moments
Strong like hearthstone
She is growth, long, patient, pressing
She is decades of shared experience
Joy, adversity, family, and sentiments
She has never faltered in love
She was always steady in Us
Even when She threatens
I know She won’t do it
Because I see the deep abiding
Love in Her eyes, hear it hiding
In Her sighs. She’s mine.
And that is how it is with me too.
I exhaust Her with my desires
I get to make Her show feelings
Send Her pinwheeling
I get to stoke Her deep fires.
So let me say it plain and true
No matter what love may do
Or what may come through
I married The One, She is my wife
I married The One
She is my life
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