What is it about the mystery of love that draws us in so deep?  One can have everything in life, yet, if they don’t have love, it’s like they have nothing at all.  Love beckons us, it whispers in our ear, infuriates us at times, excites us beyond measure…it knows the future.  Love unequivocally is why we are here.  Can you think of anything more ecstatic, more blissful, than pure love?

My husband and I were the honored attendees of a favorite couple’s 25th wedding anniversary celebration last year. Each participant was asked to create an artistic expression of love to share for their betrothed.  The intimate exchanges of music, performances, poems, and video clips were touching beyond measure.  How inspiring to be in a room full of couples who have chosen in, chosen to see themselves fully…the good, the not so good, the ugly, the champion, and those tender places in between; calling out for nurturing and deep healing.  These couples, rare birds, have chosen the road less traveled; the fulfilling, sometimes bumpy, blinding, yet awe inspiring, all in 100 percent dance of divine partnership.

Below is the piece I wrote for my husband.

Puzzle pieces, we fit in every way, your hand, your lips, your everything in my hips

To smell you is bliss, the taste of your kiss, just being in your arms, like this.

When you look deep within my eyes, I swim in your ocean.  My heart’s delight, you are my love potion.  To cook beside, create, ignite, I anticipate, shear delight.

Raising our children-together, sublime.  The gift to us all, better than time.  Giving our children love and life like never before, beside you, truly, the one I adore.

Adventure, loquacious, music, minds, contemplation of life, in each other’s arms, protected and right.

A worldview, language, intertwined with our love, wisdom, healing hearts, meaning of life with my betrothed.

To share adventure, push past fear, accelerating in life, moving past strife, expanding minds as our meaning of life.

Watching you grow, knowing in tow, I too am part of the man you now know.  Life with you, always new, I believe in us, I believe in you.

Gratitude, appreciation, helping others succeed, learning to trust, as you take the lead. Then I lead, and we dance, twas’ not by chance, but intention.  When you love who I am and I feel it inside, we find ourselves in another dimension.

Power couple, dynamic duo, together we can accomplish anything we put our heart to, oh, also our minds.  A gentle kiss hello, this sweet man I know, loving you more than perhaps you’ll ever know.