Anniversary 18
So today marks the eighteenth year we have spent as husband and wife. There are not words for being together like that. I am convinced of her beauty. The fleeting days of our youth have given way to something more deep and more rich.
Many would have you believe that those kinds of words are spoken by people who are not young anymore. Like we have to cling to them despite our hidden feelings that they are not true. But my wife really is beautiful - inside and out. My appreciation for what she has become is not a consolation prize for youth. She wholly is beautiful inside and out. And with a richness of self that is unattainable in only 20 or so spins around the sun.
I can't find the location, but in New York there's a brass monkey fitted to the end of a handrail. It was added as an architectural flourish. It gleams today bright and shining because people go out of their way to touch it - to connect with it. Despite the ravages of the weather and pollution it shines brighter now than when it was first installed. My wife is like that shining brass. (Not at all like the monkey - unless shes feeling playful)
My Heidi shines - she gleams, burns bright, lights my fire. I am in the midst of a lot of uncertainly right now but I am certain of her, of who she is and is becoming, that she loves me and that I so love her. And that makes all the other stuff so much easier to bear.
Many would have you believe that those kinds of words are spoken by people who are not young anymore. Like we have to cling to them despite our hidden feelings that they are not true. But my wife really is beautiful - inside and out. My appreciation for what she has become is not a consolation prize for youth. She wholly is beautiful inside and out. And with a richness of self that is unattainable in only 20 or so spins around the sun.
I can't find the location, but in New York there's a brass monkey fitted to the end of a handrail. It was added as an architectural flourish. It gleams today bright and shining because people go out of their way to touch it - to connect with it. Despite the ravages of the weather and pollution it shines brighter now than when it was first installed. My wife is like that shining brass. (Not at all like the monkey - unless shes feeling playful)
My Heidi shines - she gleams, burns bright, lights my fire. I am in the midst of a lot of uncertainly right now but I am certain of her, of who she is and is becoming, that she loves me and that I so love her. And that makes all the other stuff so much easier to bear.
But, glimmers turn into rays, and rays into beams. And the sunshine who is your wife, will still outshine them all.
God Bless you and Heidi on your anniversary. (Comment this)