My Love, My Heart, My Wife

By grace and laughter, in joy I fall 

Ever more deeply in love with you.

Through passion, intent on true desire.

In smiling eyes, coquettish fire.

In comfort or labor the peace I find. 

Unending patience, always kind.

My fondest thought each day's your face.

Freckled with charm, a warm embrace.

Through sadness & sorrow in hope we'll stand 

I will always hold your hand.

For nothing loved is truly gone.

My infinite rose - you are my song.

My love, my heart, my wife I know

Beauty in servant's hands will grow.

Through marriage I see and feel what's true.

The gift of God is hope in you.

The Mystic Chords of Memory

Unmoored.

    ...and drifting

                                        .shrinking to a fog-obscured 

               shade of what once was on

                               ...storming beaches.

Are you dreaming?

        Are you

 you.

                     ... i hear a cold 

and distant psalm

As mocking laughter

 ..the echo.

                of my hero...

      ..no longer in

                                        this empty vessel

       tied now...

      only by the blood

                and the mystic chords

                                                                 of memory