For Bill, on our 21st anniversary

     

     

     Twenty-one years have passed by

     easily

     as we’ve struggled

     and fought

     and laughed our way through them.

     Transitions --

     there have been many --

     have challenged us

     tipping our equilibrium

     a little to the left

     and then the right.

     Complacency

     never lasting long enough to equal boredom

     and anxiety

     not long enough to equal despair.

     It’s been good.

     It’s been bad.

     It pretty much looks like every other marriage out there.

     The difference is…

     this one’s mine

     and it’s his

     and it’s ours.

 

     And that, my friends,

     is what makes today worth noting.

     For richer or poorer

     in sickness and in health

     to love and to cherish

     to love and to cherish.

-- Hana Haatainen Caye  ©2012

 

Beguiled

Today is our anniversary. I have been married to my wonderful husband, Bill, for 19 years, so I think it's only appropriate to post something lighter today. Perhaps a poem I wrote for him quite a few years ago. It's a silly poem and every part of it is intentional, so if you decide to critique it, know that I understand the word 'thee' is no longer used...like I said, everything's intentional.

Beguiled

by Hana Haatainen Caye

You sleep
you snore
you dream awhile

My husband
lover
my best pal

I wonder who it is you see
with eyes closed tight
in private dreams

Then once or twice
I see a smile
across those lips
that once beguiled

a widow,
young,
(too young for you!)
You came along
when I was blue.

You made me laugh
You saw my smile
across these lips
that once beguiled

a man too old
(too old for me!)
I shake my head,
“How can this be?”
That you were
always
in my dreams…

and I in yours
or so it seems.

So as you sleep
and as you snore
your dreams don’t matter
anymore

‘Cause I have you
and you have me
It’s me you love
and I love thee!


Happy anniversary to my beloved.

Hana

Photo by Hana Haatainen Caye...taken at our favorite getaway spot: Willow House Cottage in Latrobe, PA