On Your Birthday

With each stroke of the brush

With each word written by pen

With each brief thought of longing

With each kindness offered

With each day that passes from

one month or year to the next,

my silent love for you is expressed

in all those ways and more as

we continue our journey together

down the river currents of time,

blending in and together all the colors

of our travels both near and far

while we sometimes rock in the

wooden chairs of our memories

on the front porch of our lives

and in whose hands, each others hands

hold all our unspoken dreams and

all the understandings that we

have or will have when celebrating

each year of life together and

each birthday before they are forgotten

and we sit in motionless thoughts

experience life in motionless bodies

looking into each others eyes

on the sands of our favorite beach

while our intuitive awareness

sees only that which we always had.

January 3, 2016