From Year to Year

From Virginia to Tennessee and points in between,

dreams you have followed no matter how often

different directions had changed your attitude;

From Morristown to Chattanooga and not for too long,

broken dreams returned you to the valley ;

From youth to aged beauty and more,

your feelings have danced with life’s fires,

your mind absorbed curiosities and

your eyes saw what no mother should have seen;

From year to year, five decades and more, you have

unwrapped and read - almost twenty of these

always saying, I love you . . . yet understating

what you already know and overlooking

all the understanding

all the caring

all the hoping

and me not seeing all the giving

or the needing we both have.

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