24 Years

24 Years

"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more"

24 years that seem like 24 hours.
24 years with everyone groaning, "Oh, how long is it now?"
24 years and now our traditions have traditions.
24 years with so many "I love you"s that they can't possibly all be counted.
24 years with no routines, but a comfort level that allows us to be us.
24 years of sharing a bond strengthened day over day and year over year.
24 years with half of those watching our love outside ourselves in three small (and now, not so small) forms.
24 years with each year bringing a renewed sense of hope and love.
24 years is almost a quarter of a century.
24 years is older than The View, but not quite as old as The Simpsons.
24 years with new jobs, new careers, new companies, but still the two of us working as one.
24 years of living in the moment, but respecting the past and anticipating the future.
24 years of watching our family and extended family grow and love each other.
24 years of bumps in the road that have always had us landing side by side.
24 years of watching you from afar and still being amazed.
24 years of never losing sight of what's important to us.
24 years of hearing each other, but listening with our hearts.
24 years is 96 changes of season with everything coming back to fall where it all began.
24 years of having the complications of life melt in the simplicity of our love.
24 years of being aligned together in the best of ways.
24 years of refusing to give up on each other - no matter what.
24 years of never being insecure in our love and all that goes along with it.
24 years cemented into place sitting in a car at a red light with a simple yes.
24 years of saying yes to each other ever since.

I love you now and I'll love you always.

Between now and then til I see you again, I'll be loving you. Love, me