By my dad
Date: 3 June 1998

anniversary

20 years ago in the olden days
the kids would say
We thought we loved each other
but we the people we were then,
couldn't have begun to love
because we had never felt
the babies kick, woke to crying in the night,
to tired to do anything but be
or even heard of little girl strawberry kisses.

We had never broken bread,
shared dreams, changed dreams in midstream,
or done any of the hundreds of things true lovers do.
Now the people we are now 
do know these things and more.

But, wouldn't it be surprising
if 20 years from now
I was to come to you one evening and say,
20 years ago in the olden days, 
We thought we loved each other...