My Life

A young hearted couple sat on a bench under the shade of a tree.
She turned to him and asked “Do you love me?”
He looked back at her, smiled, and said “I love you like the sun loves the day and like the moon loves tonight.”
She smiled back at him and looked to and asked “Why are you with me?”
He looked at her and said with a reassuring tone “I am with you because you are the reason behind my everything.”
She continued to look and him and smile and said “But why do you love me?”
He looked at her and said “I love you because of who you were, who you became, and who you are now. I love you because I don’t know how not to. You are all that I have ever wanted, everything that my heart ever needed, and everything that my dreams desired.”
She looked at him and asked one last question “Would you be sad if I was gone?”
He looked down towards the ground, paused, then turned back towards her “You are the sun and moon of my life. My love begins with you and ends with you. You are my passion, my heart, my soul, my dreams, my wants. Without you I have and I am nothing. Over the past 60 years you’ve become more than my wife. You have become my life. And as I tell you every year when we sit on our bench, without you I couldn’t make it through another minute.”
She smiled with tears in her eyes, leaned in and put her head on his chest as he put his arm around her. they sat in each others arms under the tree that they had planted 60 years ago.

I Will Remain

The sun that will rise in the morning is the same that rose today but we look upon it as the symbol of a new beginning.
But the sun will remember what it shined upon and will not soon forgot the indiscretions that we all committed.
But for now I will let slip from my mind the sun and hold you in the emptiness of the dark and shed away your beleaguered skin.
Shed away your disguises and your pretenses and your falsities until there are none left.
I will shed them all away until you are truly exposed.
Until you are exposed to the night and to the cover of it’s obscurity so that none may see.
I will hold you with relent and tighten as you begin to agonize from your own thoughts.
But with you I will remain in spite of your hesitation to allow me to see you.
By your side is where I am not wanted but where I know I am needed and where I will be steadfast.
We will embrace the night together and we will both be exposed to a frigid cold.
But to feel the warmth of the sun we have to first endure and overcome this cold.
And I will continue to hold you both in my arms and within the confines of my being no matter how hard you fight me.
I will face the darkness and the despair and the coldness of uncertainty because I know that I could not face the sun with clear conscience if I did not.
But it is not approval nor is it a clear conscience that I seek and battle for.
I do not seek salvation and I do not seek redemption, although my soul thirsts for both.
I seek the who as in who you were and who I was when you were whole.
I swear to find you again before the sun rises and burns away what remains of you and what remains of what we were.
I will find the lock that fits the key around my neck that I have carried with me my entire life.
I will love you as you hate me for doing so and I will not stop no matter how you try to hurt me.
And I will do this because I will not forget how you found the lock to my heart that fit the key you wore around your neck until the day you loved me.