Under a maple tree
in the afternoon sun
on a beautiful day in May
We said our vows
To have to hold …
To love and to cherish
Didn’t have a clue about
The roller coaster
We had boarded
Without the faintest glimmer of
what the future would hold
But that day in May
When I looked into your eyes
I said to myself
There is no place on earth
That I would rather be
Those early days
On any given Sunday
Sleeping in
New York Times sections
spread across the bed
Picking the movies
we would see later that day
I would say to myself
There is no place on earth
That I would rather be
There were rough times
Early on…..
I could have lost you
My grandmother nursed you back to health
No thank you required
it’s what I do
She would say
And as I wept, grateful for
your safe return to my arms
I would say to myself
there is no place on earth
that I would rather be
Since those days there have been
Times of joy so sweet
Mixed with times of pain and suffering
Together we lost so much and so many
Together our children and grandchildren
Have grown and flourished.
And through those times
I would say to myself
There is no place on earth
That I would rather be
And today
Decades from that day in May
No matter what life tosses our way
I repeat our vows
Knowing full well
The depth and breadth of their meaning
Knowing what I couldn’t have even imagined
When they first passed my lips
And say to myself
there is no place on earth
that I would rather be
To have and to hold
And to love and cherish you.
Dan this is lovely and so inspiring. I will keep it in my permanent collection of inspirational writings that I go back to often Marti
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Thank you Marti!
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❤️❤️😞
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