As I look deeply into your eyes

I see love

As if we had always been lovers

A life intertwined

I see oceans of tears shed

I see tenderness

the fruits born of strife and yearning

I see tenderness

A flower where once was despair

I see a thousand harsh words

Morphed into tenderness

I see a past filled with conflict

A harmony born from acceptance

I see a past as rich as crimson

A beauty nurtured and tended

A culmination of destiny and fate

as we slowly now decline

The union of a lifetime

I see you smile and kiss me

And I am and evermore will be

Honored to have you with me

If even for one more breath