For My Wife (Elvira) On Valentine's Day

How often I have neglected to give
thanks for your unconditional love,
true dedication and your respect.
How often I have neglected
to thank you for being a
dedicated wife and mother.

For you are my friend and my lover,
the backbone of my existence for all
these years. Roses, candy, decorated cakes,
flamboyant parties,
gifts of diamonds and rubies,
traveling to an isolated
island with beautiful flowers
filled with perfume.

This would seem like the perfect
gift to give someone as special as you.
But I know you so well. You would
prefer to continue seeing the
gleam in my eyes everytime I come
home from work.

You would prefer the soft touches and
agreeable glances that we give each
other as we sit at the table having
breakfast and snacks.

You would prefer that we continue
to see in each other all
that's required to sustain
this blessed union.

Knowing all of this,you are still
deserving of all the gifts.

For your are a very special Valentine,
you are mine, all mine.

Poetic Verses By Gamaliel H. Gooding
Copyrighted 2011