Everything, copyright Alma Drake 2023, Creative Commons (Attrib.)
Michael and I met in 1999, when I was still married to somebody else, and at the time, I thought to myself, Dammit! I married the wrong guy!
And that thought never changed. In 2023 we corrected that oversight, and our first anniversary is just over a week away. He has spent most of the second half of 2024 a few hundred miles away caring for his end-of-life parents who live in a place that’s worse than most third world countries. (Full disclosure, though the time away has been frustrating and painful and difficult, his nurturing nature, loyalty and devotion, and selfless care for his family are some of the biggest reasons I married him.) He’ll be home for our anniversary, though. So this is in honor of him.
Talk about two worlds colliding
Long haired skinny boy with the sweetest smile
Hittin’ all my soft spots, and finding a way in
Past my carefully curated armor
Not a single doubt in my mind
But I had traveled down the wrong road and I
Couldn’t get back, couldn’t skip out this time
But instinctively I knew
That everything, everything, everything about you is the best thing
Everything, everything, every-thing is the best thing
Years later we collided again, in a bar
I was playin’ some guitar
When you walked in like the sun rising
And lit up my carefully darkened corners
Fast forward to a cold February night
We made poetry, we exchanged light
I was yours, you were mine, we were each our own
And in your touch I knew
Bridge
And now that we have made it – to this
Time and place to celebrate it
The deeper we go, the sweeter it grows
And every day is the best day
And here we stand between two magic mirrors
Reflecting and projecting through all the years
We’ve been friends, we’ve been lovers, what happens next?
The best is yet to know
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