Punctuate it!
Twenty five years 25!
! #25
Since the day we were married
Dinner at The Pomegranate
Didn't do it
The trip to Spain?
We didn't do it
Twenty five years
Since we were younger
Now we're better
Not at tennis
Which we've neglected
But our legs have gone the distance
Rocky and Apollo Creed
We've slugged it out
We keep bouncing back
You are the most inspirational player on our team
A dream team
Sweetheart
Lover
Best friend
Wife
The joy of my life
Best friend and only lover
Best lover and only friend
Aaaaaakk!
I love you
I am inspired
To sing with you
An everlasting duet
This is a silver-haired anniversary for you
A sparse-haired anniversary for me
I tend toward histrionics
At any thought of your absence
While I abandon you for days to work
But this afternoon, you've left me
For four hours
Time to contemplate the trip to Spain
That we didn't do
A week and four days ago
On the actual 25th anniversary of our marriage
Time to imagine another 25 years
In compensation for an event without punctuation
A celebration in prose, in lower case
It didn't hurt much after singing poetry for so long
Our symphony of love songs
Where are we going next?
It seems having not gone, or not often, anyway
Has been a confinement that made us sing
Like the caged bird of that novel that I didn't read
Having sung behind bars long enough on my own
And then in joyful ardor, knowing you
We began, having more fun together than lunging at life alone
Then about sunset before an evening at the opera
I asked, what is love and are we in it?
Your smile answered my jest
And somehow you sustained the humor
For months that resembled immolations that night on the stage
We have the future
It need not resemble the past
Though we surely could have done worse
We might yet break the world record for bliss
We wanted to live in the nineteenth century with Verdi, Brahms, and Schumann
The world made us work as if their art had never existed
You fought attorneys and wrote land-use code
I wrangled truck drivers, worked as a medical tech
Then I discovered C++ and read Microcosm
We skimmed the twentieth century and landed in the twenty first
Where ever we're going, it will be high-tech
This is the only way I can get you to read my blog
So what I have I got to make it worth the click?
Where is my paean to a gorgeous goddess?
Ha! It was a trick
You'll have to keep reading week after week.
