“With All My Love”, I always say
But clearly that’s not true
For our love grows with every day
And it’s all because of you
With every year that passes by
A more beautiful woman I see
And even though you’re sixty-five
You’re still nineteen to me
Happy Birthday Catherine
With All My Love (so far)
That time you drove past the single mom Changing a tire in the rain You didn’t stop to help And missed a few minutes of palpable joy Or when you scolded the dad at the store Buying last minute diapers With a screaming child And brought hell into play for your own peace And the time your child needed comfort After being laughed at in school Instead you quoted A long dead maxim that ignored opportunity You open a door that is quickly slammed When you rush intimacy Into gratification without gentleness And the chance to whisper love instead of shout You miss minutes of heaven every day When you are not present Not looking for moments To bring joy and love to the world you have May you see that you have enough heaven To last for eternity In your moments on earth Time only matters in the realm of kindness
From the heart, it seeps into the rest A drop at a time Creating rings, ever widening Never ending Throughout one’s soul And into the hearts of those nearby Eventually reaching all surrounding life On every shore Waiting for change, receptive to hope Courage is the wave Created by one drop of faith In what could be done
It’s not a race The finish isn’t the goal The journey is the end And the beginning The Tao says the walls Of a house are only important To create the empty space Where life can happen To keep out the weather Is important, but without The empty space A house would be a rock Life and Love are the same The beginning and end Exist only to create The marvelous middle To put focus on destinations Loses sight of the now Being present Is all that really matters It’s not a race The finish is not the goal Our journey is the end And the beginning
When eternity dies We must seek out wisdom Present justice is elevated Legacy becomes paramount When eternity dies Peace can be conceived Hope will be in the present Faith grows from knowledge Love is formed from inside out When eternity dies Today is reborn
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