To my Husband on our Anniversary

To my Husband on our Anniversary

December 2004

Who would have known when we were twenty-somethings

Who would have known that just one furtive glance

Would set my heart aflutter, send it racing

Who would have known our love would stand a chance?

You, a bespectacled lad, a little scrawny

Warm smile, a friendly face, the jokes so corny,

You had my heart the moment I first saw you

I knew right from the start you were the one

You were the one that I could love forever

You were my guiding light, my setting sun.

Now that we’ve been together on life’s journey

For almost 40 years, I feel divinely blessed

Who would have known that we would still be happy

And still in love…who would have ever guessed?

And so my love, I pledge to you forever

That by your side I’ll stay till heaven calls

I hope and pray that I will go before you

I couldn’t cope without your touch and love.

Thank you, my love, for all the years of caring

Thank you for opening up my world to vistas new

Thank you for all the sharing and the growing

But most of all, thank you for being you!

All my love—your wife, Susan