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

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Let Me

Let me hold your hand tonight
Let me be your man tonight
Let me see your shape in moonlight
Let me bring you close and tight

Let me sing my heart's own song
Let me bring my voice along
Let me right where I've gone wrong
Let me find where I belong

Let me have your heart's devotion
Let me swim inside your ocean
Let me feel the same emotion
Let me stir up some commotion

Let me see what others don't
Let me help where others won't
Let me stay, let me haunt
Let me give you what you want

Monday, May 30, 2011

My heart

It is my heart that write these words each day
My hands only trace what my heart feels to say
My mind only sees as my heart points the way
My soul only voices words my heart longs to pray
My feet remain still where my heart hopes to stay
My heart is the reason I love you each day.

Sunday, May 29, 2011

A promised sealed

It seems a small thing
but it means so much
when you lean to me
and our lips touch

I remember the first
I wait for the next
a promise sealed
in love to protect

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Wife Devine

You are all I ever wanted
everything I could chose
your beauty leaves me haunted
your whisper my ghostly muse

You have all but taken me
possessed my heart and soul
I do not wish to be made free
I gladly yield control

My trust in you is made sure
when your eyes meet mine
I have in you an angel pure
a lover and wife divine

Friday, May 27, 2011

I will still love thee even in death

I will still love thee even in death
there is no end to the way I feel
when I have taken my very last breath
rest assured knowing my love is real

I'm sured I loved you before creation
and promised to find you here
kissing as we left that exulted station
to enter this mortal sphere

This life gives me time to prove my love
and share all that I have learned
for now until we return above
my heart for you alone will burn

Thursday, May 26, 2011

I thought you'd like to know

All the girls I knew before
helped me to this place
each more showed a little more
a different side of love's face

I learned it from my mother
I learned from my friends
love beats all the others
with no beginning and no end

So I lay love at your feet
and it continues to grow
you make my love complete
I just thought you'd like to know.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Colorful Girl

It didn't take me long to realize
that my favorite color in the world
is the color belonging to the eyes
of my favorite, colorful girl

I saw it from the very start
I peaked into her soul
They seem to see my true heart
they seem to take control

It should come as no surprise
that my favorite color in the world
is the color belonging to the eyes
of my favorite colorful girl