Everyday Love: The Plan

About 2 weeks after my marriage to Jill, I left her the first of what I now call, "everyday love notes". It read simply, "Sleep on my queen and when you dream, dream me to be your king." 19 and half years, and several hundred notes later, I still find a new reason everyday to fall in love with her and I am still searching for the right words to express it.

So for the next year I am writing an "everyday love note" everyday. Honest expression of a man's love for his wife and how daily that love looks, lives and lasts.

All of these I will post here , and all of these I will write and leave for Jill.

Year in Review

I have learned a lot over the past year while trying to write each of these poems on a daily basis. It wasn't as easy as I thought it would be but neither is love. There are good poems, great poems and poems that still need work...just like boening in love, there are good days, great days and days that I could have put some more work into. And even though every line is true...just like true love, sometimes it is stretch or hope that gets you there.

I hope there has been something the eveyone can relate to and draw from...I don't think my experience is too far removed when you really think about why you love the one you do. Thanks for reading and loving. Most of all, thanks to Jill, for being the women who inspired this project and daily gives me reasons to love her. I love you.

Dan

Saturday, September 18, 2010

B-Side to Rock Ballad: Life is hard, you make it easy

These day
are long days
with early lights, to late nights
walking the tight wire

Burning
The candle
at both ends
until I'm caught up in the fire

Life is so hard
but you make it easy for me
at the end of the day
Girl you're all I want to be about and see
Can't you see

Let's run away tonight
faster then the breaking light
just gets away from here
we'll kick it into good time gear
Lets find a place where we
can loose these chains and just be free
free to be you and me

My time
well is not mine
its the boss mans or uncle sams
from 9 to 5

Working
and waiting
and punching the clock
just trying to to survive

Life is so hard
but you make it easy for me
at the end of the day
Girl you're all I want to be about and see
Can't you see

Let's run away tonight
faster then the breaking light
just gets away from here
we'll kick it into good time gear
Lets find a place where we
can loose these chains and just be free
free to be you and me
Posted by dan knudson at 10:22 AM

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