We are now just about 20 days from our 20th Wedding anniversary. 20 years together. 20 years of happiness. 20 years of waking up next to my best friend. 20 years of spending every day thinking about you. The best 20 years of my life. So with that I needed something special for this blog. Something that commemorates the 20 years we have spent together. It had to be "poetic". However, as you know writing poems isn't my thing. Then you gave me the opportunity I was looking for - a moment of clarity.
About the time our nephew was getting married we started talking about the songs they wanted played at their wedding. Obviously they had a first dance song. But it hit me then that while we have the perfect song for our relationship, we also have many other songs that remind me of you. They aren't all perfect, but each has at least one line that speaks to me about you. I hear so many songs and think of you. I actually have a playlist on my MP3 player with nearly 40 songs that remind me of you. How many men can say that they have so much that reminds them of how much the love their wives?
With that comes the first of your 20th Wedding Anniversary gifts. A poem of sorts. A combination of the lines from 20 songs that speak to me about you and our relationship. It won't rhyme, it probably won't even flow well together, but it will be my poem to you.
Over the next 20 days leading up to our anniversary I will post an entry about each song. Whenever possible I'll add a link to the YouTube video or something. My hope is that you will listen to each song then read the blog. But each day I will take the one line that reminds most of you and put it on the sidebar to the left of this main area. Over the 20 days it will grow into the poem of our 20 years. I'll add a brief blog entry for each song and what it means to me about you. Each day you will have something to read about our relationship leading up to our glorious celebration of 20 years together.
I hope you like it - it is going to be quite a challenge to get it just right. Here goes....
The first song is by Split Enz. You have heard it plenty of times before. It is called "Message to my Girl". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUC_jE78FNE
The song is a reminder of early in our relationship. The song tells a story of a guy who realizes he is in love. It kind of scares him. "I don't want to say I love you - that would give away too much" the singer croons. He hasn't really felt this before. It is cool to not be in love. It is safe. Yet the feeling cannot be overcome. He realizes that it is selfish to not share this love he has with the other person. "It is no new years resolution - its more than that".
Then he realizes that all he needs to do is give in. Give in to this incredible feeling he has. No matter what anyone else says h eknows doing so will make him happy. And it does. So there comes the line I chose for you.
"Now I wake up happy - warm in a lovers embrace"
Because sweetie once I realized how much in love with you I was, everything was better. I wake up happy every day. Just having you in my life makes everything better. Like the song I was so scared to tell you. So afraid to feel that way. Obviously so stupid because once I let myself love you the way I do - life became good.
Now 20 years later it just keeps getting better. Every day. Thus this line becomes the first entry to the poem of our 20 years together.
I hope this works the way I planned it. Happy Anniversary.
You're the world to me. I love you more than anything in the world.
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