Some things in life we only get one shot at
Some times we gotta risk absolutely everything
At some point our actions have to be completely crazy
to everyone else
in order to be perfect.

Those willing to step outside the fence
of thought
action
belief
faith
motivation
truth
and self will

Are the only ones who discover
New thought
New action
New belief
New faith
New motivation
New truth
and a Renewed will

Sometimes we have to give up
everything we think or believe we want
in order to find everything we actually want.

We found what we actually secretly wanted
We discovered the absurdity to our former ways
We experienced something new to us
In order to do it all over again.

Now stepping into a 4th year
with a gasp at everything before
We stand in two widening worlds.
With reverence and shock for both.

Knowing only that together is our requirement
As we take joy in others who stare into their lover’s eyes
That secret bond they only know.

We only know
what we have always known
and had always sought
and had always hoped
But could not say to ears who heard.

The surface knows not of the depths
or the giant beasts that dwell within those waters.
That it is then all survey the horizon
as we are the realm of the deep unseen

And we create as best we can
the House of our awareness
to thrust out into the light
Yet still it is a formation translated.

Ahh it is to me still beautiful
to express
even while aware of the reality
of the unmeasurable waters
that is who we wholly are.

And this… this is what harbored our tears
for to finally jump into those uncharted waves
we discovered that they were us.

It is the Lighthouse that guides
all those who blindly traverse our sea.
as the Lighthouse also guides us
on the horizon of your surface.

But true Love, true Intent, true earnestness
these blend river to sea
and gulf to ocean
where both and all are as one.

Then there is every form of hidden life
under the waves, under the chop
under the lifeboats others cling onto
In a place where we know not of ourselves alone.

I am grateful for One who shared
Beyond the face of the water
and opened the life of her oceans
for my rivers and rain and seas to
enter into and blend with.

I have not known one or seen one
not one other then her
who gave more then the surface
who showed more then the glimmering sun.

We always knew
the life was in the depths
and this in Our lover’s waters
is what we always sought
to share with another.

Sometimes we have to risk it all,
and jump right in
to enter our own lives.

Thank you my Lover, My Wife, My friend, and My Secret
Colleen
There is so much more for us to explore… Together.

Happy Anniversary.
Ryan o0o