Just One More for Today...

For good measure, I suppose...

And because this woman opens the windows of my soul, exposing me...

And because I love him. I just do.

One more Merrit Malloy poem, and then I'll get on with my day! This one is called New Year's Day 1975, although for me, it would be more like January 7, 2006.......

Surely my life was run on batteries
Before you,
Without a natural source of energy or light.

I didn't always want to be
The best I could be.
I didn't always wake up feeling good.

You nourish me,
You've cleaned me and restored me.
You've brought value to all that was lost to me before.

[...]

There isn't a new way
Of saying I love you.
I can only do that
By staying with you,
By taking care of you and me,
And maybe by giving you gifts,
Like honesty
And understanding
And the rest of my life.

We're a valentine,
You and me,
The kind that never happens
And has.