A Special Valentines Day card

I remember you in the youth of our days . . .
Your soft gentle lips; your playful ways
Your warm breath on my cheek
Young love in your gaze . . .

I remember the excited anticipation
with which we rode into the hills
And let ourselves go, exploring new found skills
In flowered mountain pastures,
surrendering to our wills . . .

We rode bare back together
until our motion was one
The blue moon over the Teton's
our witts undone
By the passions of youth until the clear morning sun
Broke sparkling like diamonds and we had become one.

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The years came and went yet we shared the same trail
It wasn't always easy, there were storms, rain, & hail
There was lighting and thunder,
mighty winds left clouds tattered
But we faced them together and that is what mattered.

Now, my beauty there is silver in your golden hair
But it still floats on the wind
and the trail we still share,
It matters not that we grow long in the tooth
for your soft gentle lips are as they were in your youth

I still feel your warm breath/ It caresses my check
and we still wander high trails over the mountains still seek
The wonder of it all; the beauty and the truth
And we'll get there together as we did in our youth

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Now here is your Valentine on Valentine's Day
I just wanted you to know so I thought I would say
That I really don't think it matters, of course,
that I give you this Valentine,
even though you're my horse.

To Babe with love,
Tom
(c) copyright, Tom Wolfe