Your anniversary is in a couple of days, but since tonight you're going out to celebrate it, I thought I'd post my wish for you today. I love this poem. I know that it's how I feel about Jim and I'm pretty darned sure it's how you feel about each other.
Tin Wedding Whistle by Ogden Nash Though you know it anyhow Listen to me, darling, now, Proving what I need not prove How I know I love you, love. Near and far, near and far, I am happy where you are; Likewise I have never larnt How to be it where you aren't. Far and wide, far and wide, I can walk with you beside; Furthermore, I tell you what, I sit and sulk where you are not. Visitors remark my frown Where you're upstairs and I am down, Yes, and I'm afraid I pout When I'm indoors and you are out; But how contentedly I view Any room containing you. In fact I care not where you be, Just as long as it's with me. In all your absences I glimpse Fire and flood and trolls and imps. Is your train a minute slothful? I goad the stationmaster wrothful. When with friends to bridge you drive I never know if you're alive, And when you linger late in shops I long to telephone the cops. Yet how worth the waiting for, To see you coming through the door. Somehow, I can be complacent Never but with you adjacent. Near and far, near and far, I am happy where you are; Likewise I have never larnt How to be it where you aren't. Then grudge me not my fond endeavor, To hold you in my sight forever; Let none, not even you, disparage Such a valid reason for a marriage. |
4 comments:
That's so sweet of you, dear friend, and a wonderful poem. Thank you!
Have a wonderful night out!
That is so beautiful, and expresses perfectly how I feel! Thank you, Deni.
I'm glad you liked it. And I'm glad that my dear friend found you -- someone to cherish her and that she can cherish back, the way both of you deserve. And, as a bonus, I get a new friend, too. (Because, you know, it's all about ME!!! ;-)
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