Friday, February 18, 2011

janni's journal: This is where I will put my poems

janni's journal:MY WIFE

I see her hands now gnarled and bent, trembling, clumsy

Aged with spots that tell the years

I see her eyes now faded and inward looking, gentle still but dim with time

I see her legs, now veined, weary, somewhat lumpy should the truth be told

I see her lips, now creased with age and thin not plump

I remember the way they were when first we kissed

And yet, in spite of all the years now gone, I see her still as she once was

Vibrant, laughing, hands a symphony of movement as she spoke

Her dancing legs a celebration of the joy of life she felt

And those sweet lips that spoke of love and kissed our slumbering infants

O love of mine what wreckage all our years has rent

I wouldn’t change a scrap of it - our trials and tears

Our loving to the end and always sharing

I see not what is now but then

I love you still, e’en more, my life, my love, my wife

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