Wife

O, there is nothing grander in the world

Than to greet the day with all my sails unfurled

And catch the wind, so sweet with my arms

Of your warm breath and other breathless charms

That cause my eyes to well with tenderness

And fill my heat to bursting. Nothing less

Than kneeling at the altar of our love

And thanking every star that shines above

Can ease the ache within my throat and heart

Of desperate thirst for you and each small part

Of every waking moment in your sight

When "I wish I may, I wish I might…."

Revives my faith in wishing on a star.

I prayed for you, and now then, here you are ---

To change the rush of sea breeze into life

That laughs and loves and has the name of "Wife".

And so the Poem of  Love lives ever on,

Passed, and passed again after we're gone,

To those of us who rise to greet the day

And for the sake of love to kneel and pray.