Kate

Would you let me ponder the ways

I love thee, on this mid-summer day?

Tis not a dream, like I thought it was

The couple of years with which you have blessed me

But tis magic of the best sort

A powerful blissful dream come true indeed

With the nightmares in the past destroyed

By the radiance of your smile and the beauty of your laugh

Darkness does not exist when you lead the way

Down this path of life so twisting and varying

With your hand fixed at my side

I have eyes that see what is there I have ears that hear what is said.

Whether together or apart

I want you to find peace and happiness

To follow your heart and where it says to go

To stay true to yourself and live the life you want.

The girl troubled in the past is not the young woman persevering in the present

Strength beyond belief

Love beyond measure

Forgiveness beyond depth

Heart beyond life

But she is not the woman thriving in the future

For she will look back in the mirror and understand her and love her, but not know her.

I promise to love thee through the growth and the withering

Beyond the beauty of you as a flower

Rather keep loving your beauty as a marble

Flowers last the shortest time

Not true for the marble, which once made stays the same

The individual beauty seen through the glass exterior

The swirls and dots of different colors

Yours of the beautiful warm color spectrum.

These marbles colliding two summers ago

Though now not the same ones running from the past

Different yet the same

Though a lot has changed in this one ninth of our lives

We can stay the same, yet become different again

We can make it through the change that comes flying at us as summer closes.

If this is in fact a dream

Which it still may be

For I am not convinced of the beauty of this reality

Do not wake me

I want to sleep

In fact, I would rather not wake

If this is in fact not reality but a fictional state.