Happy Birthday Wife

It is Laura's Birthday! She turns old today.

Is that mean? Probably. I think that it is funny. We make such a big deal about age...as if the best of life happens when we are young. Some of the best things in life only get better with age...like sex (I think) and wine and cheese and wisdom. Adventure doesn't stop with age...the adventures just become more meaningful.

Anyways...no matter how you measure age, 31 just isn't that old. It is just the beginning of old. I am being mean again. I can't stop laughing though...I am still in my 20s. Some day I will know what I am talking about.

All kidding aside, I wrote a poem once when I was overseas. It is to my Laura, my wife.

For those of you who repulse at mushy muck read no further. I am normally one of you, but since this is my wife and my poem I think that I am exempt from repulsion for today.

Here's to Laura (and a New Castle too):


Beautiful Eyes
full of soft lullabies
now staring alone into a
suspicious evening--
it's the night that
concerns me

I miss those eyes
tending to my peace--
now I toss before I sleep
a restless heart for none to keep

but I whisper prayers
of a timid heart--
bless my beautiful eyes
while I sojourn
that again they will sing
to the tune
of my goodnight

sleep