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

Monday, October 18, 2010

Some might find me reckless
when they see they things I do
I drive to fast, drink to hard
try'n to live up to my tattoos

But if they saw how hard I tried
to keep you satisfied.
They wold see this troubled soul
has a softer side

You bring out the softer side of me
With you I'm free
to be the man I need to be
Leaving behind the fear
and all my foolish pride
Darling thanks for bringing
out my softer side

I know I'm not always right
in fact most times I'm not
But walking tall and talking loud
there the only tools I gott

But then you came around
took the devil out of me
You said you saw an angel
on the softer side of me.

You bring out the softer side of me
With you I'm free
to be the man I need to be
Leaving behind the fear
and all my foolish pride
Darling thanks for bringing
out my softer side
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