St. Valentine's Day

               Today is a special day that serves to remind us how important love and friendship are in our lives. I hope you all feel as I do: we do not need one specific day and month to celebrate love and friendship, it is important to us all year round, but we go along with the tradition.

              In keeping with the tradition, I have decided to share a poem I wrote some time ago. The truth is I wrote something very similar many years ago, but this version has undergone serious revision, it is a version that refers to present times.  The years go by and we all change, including our love for our significant other.  The love does not end, it becomes a different type of love that only comes after many years and the unavoidable ups and downs we all go through. It is a deeper and more knowing love, nonetheless, it is love.

FOR YOU

This poem is for you,

for the years shared,

in love & happiness,

in anguish and angers,

always together.

This poem is for the strong tie

that the years have forged

between you and me,

allowing us to depend on

one another,

yet also allowing the freedom

to be unique individuals

with our own ideas & illusions,

a freedom that only those

who love can experience.

This poem is for you,

in memory of that young man

I once knew,

full of energy, decided, tenacious,

yet also tender and passionate.

This poem is for the man

you are today,

somewhat serene & subdued,

still determined and strong.

This poem is for the man

who day to day shows me

in so many ways

a love transformed,

rooted in countless moments lived,

a love that only time

can nurture & develop.

This poem is for you,

the man I have loved, love, and

will always love.

This poem is for you,

my husband.