I Do
Because I love and cherish you,
And want to fill your heart with grace,
These things I promise I will do:
I vow to tell you what is true
That you might touch whom you embrace
Because I love and cherish you.
I vow to put aside my view
And paint my portrait from your place:
These things I promise I will do.
And when you must your dreams renew,
I vow to give you ample space
Because I love and cherish you.
I vow to make our battles few
And love the child behind the face:
These things I promise I will do.
And that we might make one of two,
Too deep to know, too vast to trace,
Because I love and cherish you,
These things I promise I will do.
2. These things I promise I will do
That life may grant you ample grace
Because I love and cherish you:
I vow to treasure what is true
That I might touch whom I embrace:
These things I promise I will do.
I’ll build a garden in your view
That with sweet fruit will stone replace
Because I love and cherish you.
I vow to love each day anew,
For love must dance through time and space:
These things I promise I will do.
I vow to make your terrors few
And then with you those demons face
Because I love and cherish you.
And now, as we make one of two,
A passage we cannot retrace,
These things I promise I will do
Because I love and cherish you.
Why don’t you write cards and sell them? I have never been accused of being a “romantic” but your writings are fantastic.
I may have to steal some of your thoughts and give them to my wife, but she is smart enough to know that I did not pen them.
Keep up the good work!