Love With You

The Backstory: I wrote these words over a series of lunch breaks in a quiet garden when we first met. Years later, I read them aloud as part of our wedding vows. It is a reflection on a love that feels both wild and grounded. The kind of love that makes eternity feel like a short amount of time.

Endowing, exuberant, and all encompassing.

A feeling that is ever winding, like a fleet of wild horses, galloping for miles;

unfettered, delivered, and disenthralled.

A tenderness that can analogize the warm soft breeze grazing your face on a sunny day,

or the wondrous beauty of a stardusted meadow.

Within your arms brings a foundation,

an arboured nook of strength and protection.

Like the sturdiness of a wise old oak tree;

grounded, anchored, and strapping.

Thoughts of time and glimpses of a future with you deliver a joy I never knew existed.

My covetous heart longs for the tethering of our two souls,

but suddenly

eternity does not seem long enough.