I wish that you could understand, my dear
That I did not plan on forgetting this.
I'm busy with so much new stuff at work;
You know that I've had projects off the wall.
I'm rarely home by eight 'o' clock each night
How could I have stopped to get you a gift?
Planning a reservation out to eat
Might not have worked if I'd come home too late
It's just one day out of a whole long year
You can't expect me to remember that.
If we celebrate on a different day
It wouldn't be so horrible, would it?
We'll go out tomorrow; no one will know
That today truly was ten years for us.
I can and will expect you to recall.
It's just one day a year that I ask for.
You say you deal with those projects at work
Now you get to deal with your crabby wife.
All these excuses make me more upset;
I just cannot believe them all at once.
Ten years ago you stood and made a vow
To love me every day for all your life.
You said you'd show it every way you could
But I am not seeing that love this day.
You say that we'll go out tomorrow night
I say go out to eat all on your own.
Unless you plan to say those simple words:
"I'm sorry," and admit you just forgot.
We�ve been together for ten wondrous years;
Sometimes I wonder how it�s gone so fast.
Each day I wake up next to you and think
Of all that God has blessed me with in you.
You give me something to look forward to:
Your smile, your laugh, and every word you say,
The touch of your sweet skin up against mine-
I�m in awe of these things each day with you.
In you I�ve been given all I�ve dreamed of.
When your dark gray eyes look into my own
I always wonder how I deserved you
And all that you have brought into my life.
I can�t wait to spend my eternity
With you in my arms everywhere we go.
I can�t believe that you love me enough
To spend your precious time writing of me.
You say you think that you don�t deserve me
I must admit I have those feelings too.
You pray for me and treat me with such care
And never stop to think you don�t have to.
I can�t wait to be in your arms once more
One day without you seems too long to bear
To have your light brown eyes looking at me
As if I�m all that matters in your world
It makes my heartbeat rise and I can feel
The tingles in my body at your touch.
I plan to spend my every breath with you
I�ll be in your arms everywhere we go.
Except for when you first receive the call
And you find out that I do not reside
In this cruel world that only lets us fall.
So while reading this, do not think of me
Or what I�ve done; for, Love, I wish you bliss
And that you will go on drinking your tea
Not letting me be what your heart will miss.
Now if one day you come across these words
I beg you do not even think my name
When the day comes when my voice is not heard
Please, Love, forget me and all I�ve proclaimed.
I fear that some would see you in your pain
And use your thoughts of me for their own gain.
But obviously you�re better than that.
A summer�s start is cold, not always kind
And three months long is never quite enough.
Some days the sun can beat down oh-so-hot.
But it will always leave us for some time
As so much beauty of the world will hide
Sometimes by choice but many times by force.
But you my dear, your sunshine never leaves
And you will never lose your graceful charm
I know that you will never heed death�s call
As your beauty will always be known right here
For all the life of men this poem will be
And your loveliness will live forever here.