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Love Letters.
By Aaron Henry.
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Happy fifty-ninth anniversary!
A moment's pause to celebrate your love,
Pleased with love's long continuity,
Pleased how rich your years of love have proved.
Yet in these times you are a rarity.
Far fewer favor deep roots over wings.
If roots hold fast the soil of family,
Flight escapes the pain erosion brings.
To love is to enlarge the sphere of self,
Yearning for the grace of greater being,
Needing to obliterate the gulf
In between oneself and merely seeing.
No one who loves can think life is a dream;
The risks, fears, joys, and passions more than seem,
Hostage to a fate one finds redeeming.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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