I may not post love poems constantly on this blog as I used to, but it's not because I don't write any or feel any less in love. Quite the opposite in fact. I just decided I wouldn't be posting every love poem I wrote on this blog anymore. Hopefully it makes this one all the more special for those who like reading them.
If you didn't know, I have been married before, for 6 years of a 9 year relationship. Sometimes what you believe is true love is not, although it is great at the time for many reasons. True love is something else. It's something you can't know the feeling of until you are feeling it. Most importantly, it's something you never doubt. And with Sam, I never have. I had trouble accepting it was true ~ or even possible ~ in the earliest days, but deep down I never doubted it.
People ask me how you know when someone is "the one". It may be a worn out adage, but I can say, in complete honesty, that you really do just know. So if you don't know ~ irrefutably, without a single question ~ that this is the person you want to spend your life with, then you haven't yet felt true love.
I'm very glad I'm one of the lucky ones who has and gets to live with that feeling every day. I'm thankful every day that Samantha came into my life. It will never be the same.
Like Fires
It's now a year and here we are
Still in love above the dark
Still as one with fun and talk
Feeling each other wonder more
About how, with all the fallen leaves
Always falling from the trees
Swept like embers in the breeze
We fell to one white sunny shore
And not one crazed or hazy day
Can keep our flames strong gains at bay
In our souls it grows each day
Though we may be laying on the floor
You see, it's the deepest love
Like a holy golden dove
That all want but can't englove
But which we'll share forever more
Sammy B, between our eyes
Sparks like fires light up the skies
And so we'll be 'til Venus dies
Of this single thing I'm sure.
