Changes
Hello my love, how are you?
It's been such a very long time�
So few chances at being alone
since we heard our wedding bells chime.
Almost at once, our little home filled
as each of our children were born.
Next to you I find myself
each and every single morn.
Days go by quickly now;
the children are half grown.
And before we know what's happening,
they'll set foot out on their own.
There are times now when I look
and study the many changes in you.
Gray hair, a little more weight,
do you see these things in me, too?
I watch you go off to work each day.
I wonder what you'd be in life
If you and I had never met�
if I had never become your wife.
Have I held you back, my darling?
Has our family caused you pain?
Do you have wishes unfulfilled?
Do you ever see us as a loss, not a gain?
I think about how much I've given to you,
together for all these years.
I wonder if I've given you enough
and it brings me always to tears.
In just a few years we'll be alone,
our children off doing their thing.
Although I know I'll miss them,
the idea makes my heart sing.
For then you and I will be alone
after almost 20 years.
The thought of this excites me,
yet awakens many fears.
What if we find that all that time
things were not what they seemed?
What if we discover accidentally
irreconcilable differences deemed?
I suppose all we can do is hope
and pray that things remain
As they have always been between us�
whether joy or whether pain.
Throughout all these changes in our lives,
For better or worse, one thing stays with me:
For richer or poorer, in sickness or health,
I will love you forever�unconditionally.
� Kathee Tschudy, July 26, 1997.
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