Anniversary

     for Anne since before 1970


Your photograph seduced the sun, projected
on the windscreen of my car your presence,
slashed the span from here in Hampton Roads
to California as our letters had
the distance to he war in Vietnam.

Our love and dining out and working out
our differences reduced the distance from 
our youth to parenthood as traveling 
the world and settling in one place had cut
the distance from our youth to our maturity.

Although we never knew what might become,
we'd never doubted we'd mature together,
though I have no intention to grow up.
Although I may have mellowed some, 'tis you 
who've anchored our relationship with grace.

Nor time nor distance ever shall impose
between us.  We are one together; and 
when we have shed this earth-bound suit, we shall 
be one, together for eternity,
with God, and angels and the universe.

(c)pete freas          2007