Happy Birthday Lover (file under my greatest joy)

Happy 27th Birthday Lover! I am shocked to find out that women have an inalienable right not to age past 27 if they so desire. But seriously;

I loved you the moment I laid eyes on you. I have loved you even more with each and every breath I take. You are my best friend, my confidant, my lover and my raison d’etre. I am in awe of what you have become and each and every day watch as you blossom even further. I am so proud of you. In the pursuit of your dreams. In the steps that you take every day to make yourself, and this the world, better.

It is because of your love, elegance, grace, patience and support that I have become the man I am and I continue to grow.

I thought, all day about what I could say and these three quotes kept running through my mind;

“I SING the Body electric;
The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them;
They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the Soul.”

“No sooner met but they looked;
No sooner looked but they loved;
No sooner loved but they sighed;
No sooner signed but they asked one another the reason;
No sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy;
And in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage...”

From “As You Like It.”

“I have named you queen.
There are taller ones than you, taller.
There are purer ones than you, purer.
There are lovelier than you, lovelier.

But you are the queen.

When you go through the streets
no one recognizes you.
No one sees your crystal crown, no one looks
at the carpet of red gold
that you tread as you pass,
the nonexistent carpet.

And when you appear
all the rivers sound
in my body, bells
shake the sky,
and a hymn fills the world.

Only you and I,
only you and I, my love,
listen to it.”

Pablo Neruda

C, today, as any other, I celebrate you – because you are – nothing short – OF MY QUEEN! I honour you, adore, admire and respect all you are. Happy 27th Birthday… AGAIN! I love you!

Shine on Mon Petit!

Are you dreaming big and inspired? I know C is!

A la prochaine

SDM