15 years ago I was but a girl, a head strong, wild, hard to hold on to girl. I had experienced so much and knew heart break and betrayal. I lived with passion, a force of nature some said. I was not down to earth, I was not predictable. I was a the definition of chaos.
Yet, he loved me. All of me. So he asked me to marry him, and at 18 years old I said yes.
How did I get so lucky? How did he put up with me? It has been 15 years now, and I still do not know how he manages! One thing I know, I adore him, I love him, and he just seems to get more and more attractive with time. It could be though that it seems he does not age! That is a post for another day though.
For now, let me share with you something he wrote me on our ask-aversary. Let it stay here always, safe on my blog, and never forgotten.
Firefly
There she glows;
A beautiful, mysterious, precious light in the dark.
15 years has she drawn me thus.
Teasing to and fro, like a wisp beckoning me forth to destiny.
She excites me, and she is my world.
She moves me forward, gives me purpose where else there is none.
Her gentle fragile spirit rouses the urge to shelter;
To shield her sweet and generous heart.
Would that I kept her in a jar and stole her away from the world, forever mine alone.
Yet her heart’s beauty is in freedom; she must fly, she must roam as will takes her. And where she alights, she inspires, she illuminates, she brings smiles and the warmth of love.
And lo! There springs forth of union, 15 years our journey, four delightful sparklings of love’s joyous spread; each drawn in such beauty by the singular marvel of their author.
And so is the world brightened;
By bright little souls, persistent and merry.
There in the darkness.
Admired and free.
Always and Forever.
The Light of my Love;
And the Love of my Life.
Shiny.
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This amazing man, he knows me. He knows my favorite show of all time is Firefly, he knows what words bring me to utter joyful tears. I really just don’t know how I got so lucky.
