Today would’ve been 
forty years together 
but people change 
whether by death 
or time or 
distance they do 
I never miss 
for I’m blessed 
to have had
you for as
long as I 
did and that 
made me today 

The impression remains 
like a footprint 
in the snow 
like a giggle 
it simply lingers 
no longer warm 
but reminding warmth 
that it is
always welcome to 
return for its 
place still does 

I have come 
to now understand 
that not only 
am I a
lover of words
but that we’re 
in a relationship 
of desire and 
of abandon of
absolute affection and 
the kind of 
affinity for one 
another that runs 
so deep and 
so far that 
it is the 
spark which ignited 
absolutely everything else 

Here with coffee 
just one cup 
I remember how 
upon hearing you 
ask for another 
not a cup 
did I give 
but a kiss 
and you said 
oh how I 
love morning sweetness 
be it coffee 
but mostly you 

Accepting one’s enough 
is different from 
undervaluing ourselves for 
we never know 
our worth to 
another accepting enough 
is about you 
and your happiness 
others want treasure 
and frequently they 
see that in
you be that
be just that