For my husband on my birthday

If I must grow older
with each passing year,
as youth and display disappear,
as outward beauty dissipates,
and faster time anticipates
I’m privileged
to walk with you,
to share this dream of days with you,
to hope
and play
and bless anew
another year I hold with you.

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