Poem of the Month Honors 5 Year Anniversary

That's right, we have been married 5 years. 

Wedding day, and we looked good. Or maybe just young:

I was very pale because of my semester in Rexburg, and Matt was WAY thin because of deployment to Kirkuk, Iraq. (Lunch was not served on his small base, and he was worked to the bone... so if he look 145 lbs, it is probably because he was.) We had a lovely 2 weeks together before he left to finish his deployment. 

And since then we have had 5 lovely, hard, insane, crazy, fun years. 

Here now is the poem. It is a love poem, true, but one that is deep and touches my heart.  

To My Dear and Loving Husband

Anne Bradstreet

If ever two were one, then surely we. 

If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;

If ever wife was happy in a man,

Compare with me, ye women, if you can.

I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold

Or all the riches that the East doth hold. 

My love is such that rivers cannot quench,

Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense.

Thy love is such I can no way repay,

The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray.

Then while we live, in love let's so persevere 

That when we live no more, we may live ever. 

[1678]

Oh, I did a post about Eli and his first surgery on his blog. Check it out here.