wonderful comes gently
Written by Candy Tothill on January 28, 2008 – 5:21 pm -Wonderful eats a tomato - only because you mentioned that tomatoes are your favourite thing to put on toast. It calls you at two in the afternoon - just to hear your voice. It laughs at your jokes when they aren’t funny. Wonderful listens to you breathing and doesn’t try to fill the space with words. It exposes its vulnerabilities and knows you can be trusted with its charms.
Wonderful is what finds you after your journey has led you to question its existence. In the instant when you honestly believe you’ll never know it, it reveals itself. It comes gently, tenderly like rain in the night. And you wake up one morning to discover that it has been keeping the earth in place among the stars.
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January 28th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
It sounds good to me. Not sure if it likes being referred to in the neuter, though.
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” St. Paul (I Corinthians 13:4-7)
To paraphrase Winston Groom in the mouth of Forrest Gump, “I’m not a perfect man, but I know what love is.”
Thank you for loving me, my Wonderful.
February 2nd, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Absolutely wonderful! Not only the poem, but you and Candy as well.
February 2nd, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Thanks, Susan…supportive friends mean a lot to us both. She is extraordinarily wonderful, and that she sees me through eyes that judge me worthy is like winning a celestial lottery.