When we first met
You said you would love me true
You always swore
For me there was nothing you wouldn’t do

You have always stood right by my side
You held back your own tears
As you watched me cry.

You knew of my pain
All of the past
You always helped to hold my strength
With you I held steady and fast
I once told you
Don’t marry me
You have no clue to the horrors I have seen
You said oh well
That’s quite ok
I still will marry you on a beautiful sunny day
The past you have seen does not scare me
Because that’s not the woman I love
It’s not the woman I now see.

Sometimes I don’t tell you
I love you very much
For my life has been blessed
Simply by your touch
When we first met

I was about 21
You were 42 years young
You were divorced 20 years
All but given up on love

Sometimes life was hard
We had our good and bad
But not even for all the riches
Would I trade for what we have.

You have stood by me through thick and thin
No matter what I did
You made me always believe I was worth this life I live

When we took our vows
Our friends stood by to watch
In the whispers of the wind
They won’t make it was the talk.

We stood strong to what we really thought
Together side by side
Oh my sweet husband it’s been one hell of a ride
Twenty years have come and gone
In the blink of an eye
I guess we did make it
And the next twenty we will feel the same deep inside.

You are now 63
I’m still 21
We sit and laugh together
Watch the beauty of the country sun.

God gave us life
He also gave us love
But we were the ones
Who completed each other
So in this marriage we could rise above.

Love is precious
Sometimes it only happens for a few
So I thank God every night for He blessed me with you.

~Sandy~