18 Origins

"Eighteen years of love and laughter shared,

With you, my dear, my heart is spared.

Through life's ups and downs, you've been my light,

My partner, friend, and soulmate, side by side.

Our children bless our lives with glee,

A boy, a girl, and one more to be,

Seventeen, fifteen, and eleven years young,

Their smiles and laughter, our hearts have sung.

Your kindness, compassion, and generous heart,

Inspire me daily, a work of art.

You're the sunshine that brightens up my day,

The calm in every storm, the safe way.

I'm grateful for your love, your support, and care,

For being my rock, my partner, always there.

May we continue to endure, 

the promise to love, cherish and adore,

Forever and always, more and more.

So here's to us, and our love so true,

Darlah, my love, I'm grateful for you.

You're my piranha in the Amazon, fierce and sweet,

Forever in my heart, my love, my treat." 😘❤️

18 Selah

In your eyes, where I once saw dreams, 

I see memories of milestones conquered,

In the crinkles round your eyes,

I see your familiar smile,  warmth to my heart.

I lace my fingers through your long ones, feeling the callouses you now have, from fixing all around us to make me a home.

The sun glistens, reflecting the silver in your beard, as your eyes twinkle with surpressed mirth

You dance and swing our daughter across the room,

I sip at tea our boys have made, 

With the all so familiar ocd,  and I count myself a blessed one.

For you have been faithful, you have been available, you have learned me like a subject, absorbed me and immersed yourself in the love of me, 

Until even i want to take a second look.

Much was broken in us both, and God used the pieces to mend us while bonding us,

His healing balm the laughter in our home,

Easters with Moms and Dads and their granchildren, 

Two broken homes, celebrating a wholeness only dreamt of.

Thank you for the street of Dreams,

 With you I've got plenty of plans

Thanking God for the Man of my Dreams.

Chimpmunk, Spartan the many shades of you,

Thank you my love, my husband, my friend!