My heart filled with pride as I watched you in the room,

Smiling sweetly with lips the color of a red rose in bloom,

The delight in your face lifted my spirit to a point above,

A tingle in my heart swelled large with even more love,

A tear fell from my eye creating a trace of love on my face,

Thoughts of loving you created a pulse rate of rapid pace,

As I closed my eyes to contemplate loving you for so long,

I drifted from party attendee to a man with a love so strong,

My heart’s pulse won’t slow until accompaniment of you,

It’s been such as this since our fifty five year love was new,

A voice awakens me from my love trance of you to be aware,

My sister wants to say how young you look standing there,

Do I reveal the spell of you I’ve been under since first sight,

How every day I await darkness to enjoy loving you at night,

As fading sunlight kisses darkness hello I await kissing you,

Your touch indicates a nearness of flesh that’s a lover’s cue,

Lonely roads I walked long ago seemed so narrow and long,

I’ll be the first to admit your love made this young man strong,

And now I find you across the room creating a joyful harmony,

The surround of you glows of God’s touch in a love symphony,

If I just sit here loving you will creation feel all I am within?

Touch my hand to awaken me before dreams can begin,

The reality of you shall overcome a dream as I know well,

Take my heart I implore as I submit what I am to your spell,

Your face and stature glows of heaven’s beauty to be seen,

I have the perfect surname as I prayed you’d be my queen,

I surrender my life to you, I will love you for eternity and on,

I promise the world will know of loving you before I’m gone.

The end, for Patti from Pat. December 22, 2019