The poem is one of many I’ve written for Sherry. We celebrated our nineteenth anniversary this past week, and we intend to continue celebrating our life together for many years to come. God has blessed us so much, but the greatest blessing of all is the unconditional love He gives us, and an ever increasing ability to love each other the way He loves us.
This Eden
The date of our beginning together
Indivisible at the continental divide
Came and went last week
And it caused me to reflect once again
On something that has often crossed my mind
What if? I sometimes wonder
We had met when we were young
Would our years together now be forty or more
Would our love have been as great then
And what if our beginning had been the beginning
I wonder had you been Eve and I Adam
To have had the whole world and God’s awesome love
Just you and me with all creation to share
Would we have fallen to the serpent’s snare
Believed his lies and tricks
Perhaps it would have been so
But even then we would still have had each other
These dreams of what might have been
Our little piece of heaven.
Though wonderful to think upon
Mean nothing, for now is all that matters
You and I forever… in this Eden we’ve been given
Copyright © 2011 C. Mashburn
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Sherry Mashburn said
My last and my best! I love you and cannot imagine life without you. The next 19 years will be an adventure!!
charlesmashburn said
Yes’m, that’s my super hero name, Adventure Dude!