Today marks my fifth wedding anniversary with my beautiful wife Helen, and so I thought it appropriate to share this poem that I wrote last summer for her. She’s my best friend, my soulmate and the best person I will ever meet!
I want to give you flowers,
at the beginning of the day;
To show my love will never die,
nor every fly away.
I want to give you flowers
at breakfast every morn;
When coffee’s brew is warming,
and fresh-pressed clothes are worn.
I want to give you flowers,
at work from nine to five;
To show you that I think of you,
with every breath alive.
I want to give you flowers,
at the door when I get home;
For though the day has parted us,
you’ll never walk alone.
I want to give you flowers,
at the dying of the light;
When, finally, we go to bed,
and face the endless night.
I want to give you flowers,
at every minute and every hour;
My heart and soul are yours to have,
to hold them in your power.
I want to give you flowers,
such that in my garden grows;
Healing rifts and filling space,
Like water, glistening, flows.
But I will not give you flowers now,
they wither, then they’re gone;
Yet by your side I know I’ll stay,
as time moves forward forever anon.
AHF Writes 