PAD Challenge Day 13 - A Love Poem *

The Prompt was actually "A Love Poem or An Anti-Love Poem"

Thirty Years Without A Love Poem

How long has it been

Since I wrote you a love poem?

How many years has it been?

Almost thirty years now since

I begged you - run away with me to Paris,

Tahiti, the Greek Islands, anywhere.

It hasn’t been the life we dreamed of, has it?

We haven’t been to Paris yet.

But every morning yours is the face

That I wake up to, discuss the day with,

Over tea and cereal.

Every night your kisses

Are the last thing that I know

Before the darkness takes me under.

Thirty years without a love poem

Have been thirty years of love,

Sometimes sorrow, often joy.

This is just another Tuesday afternoon,

I’ve gone shopping for our dinner.

Soon, you will be home, 

Your dear face tired and hungry.

I am writing you this love poem just to say

There are lilacs on the kitchen table, it is April,
Thirty years later we're still here.