To My Wife, While I Have the Chance

Time doesn't always work in our favor. None of us know the date or time that we shall put this world behind us. Before this happens, my wife, I need to say some things to you....

Has it really been so many years that have passed us by

since we stated those two little words that now

awaken me and makes me ask, "Where has the time gone?"

I was drunk that night, still from my bachelor party.

Bacardi 151 had decided to remain awhile.

if only we could postpone one night and I was myself

I shuffled along to the minister I was barely able to see

those people, recognizing my inebriated state

simply smiled and whispered, "Yes, he's a rock DJ."

Then you appeared sobering my mind and entering my life

exchanging lifelong vows and tiny circles of gold

we walked away not as two together, but as one forever.

The rest is a blur even though I know it happened

life being much fuller with you by my side

through all the good and the bad, it's been a journey.

We watched the kids grow up and create new lives

that will forever continue the laughter

that we attempted to provide them in their youth.

From career to career, city to city, friend to friend

never complaining, but instead, you simply

picked up your life and made a new home for us to live.

You've been my friend and my foe as we sometimes

loved and sometimes fought, we always compromised

in the end as solo victory would only have been our defeat.

When my heart decided to battle my survival, I awoke to see your

eyes looking down into mine, so worried and tired

yet, clinging to my soul, not willing to let the reaper gather his crop.

If I've never said how much you mean to me, let me do so now

for even though we depend on another day arriving,

nothing is promised for those with bodies that do as they wish.

Soul mate, ah, that is too insignificant, too minor a phrase

for one whose life has provided my reason for being

my complete and unmitigated existence heightened by your touch.

Should the world end tomorrow, or even something less tragic,

if I should no longer be around to see your smile

you must be aware of these things in my mind for I hide no secrets.

Every time I hold you reminds me of the first evening we met

and each time we kiss transcends all time and events passed

my love will never die, but become part of each day's rising sun.

It is with this thought I repeat the two words that meant so much

and take so little effort to speak

I Do!

And will forever.

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