Fur Baby Butterfly Mama

Bringing to light my affections refined

When I think of motherhood and the way its defined

Your heart full of kindness and nurturing by design

As you tend to our family

A virtuous wife and caregiver of canine

As our children are they, our Maddie and Lola like daughters

In the recurring cost of love, wet dog food, and fresh store bought gallon waters

Day in and day out as Maddie cuddles with us in our bed

We fall asleep and you wake up at times with her on your head

Even as you leave for work in the early hours of the morning dawn

She sleeps on your pillow lulled by your scent and keeping it warm while you’re gone

Whimpering and whining at the door to greet

Either grandpa or you in the hopes of a treat

Frustrated at times and impatient with her you may shout even though she can’t hear

Still you stay beside her to comfort her amid the confusion of the silence that may cause her to fear

Now even Lola as she gets older seems to develop the same

As you take them outside to potty and you attempt to call her name

Snappy she’s become at times in her old age cranky as her mother

Yet even so I wouldn’t trade our family for any other

Rambunctious still in moments of play, ever ready to bark at everyone who’s a stranger

Yet calm when held, so dissipates our fearless guard dog, and the illusion of danger

Side eyeing rebel, grandma’s lap thief, and blanket burrowing mole

You are their mother and you tend to them as to children with your heart and your soul

As they save place in your heart for your offspring in heaven that you’ll one day see

But until then you are a mother to them and a beautiful wife to me…

Where I Belong

6 years today, a scripted vow
I love you’s spoken
These actions are still learning how
Hearts mended from the ways they’ve broken

What is commitment commemorated on this day
But a moment to think and reflect on what we say

Beyond the utterance of the poetics
But marriage authenticated by follow through
In the midst of all the imperfect aesthetics
Shortsighted as I’ve been, blind to the blessing that is you

Another verse of honesty
Intimacy refined to fortify integrity
Honor is a call I’m learning to live
In the day to day ways to you I give

Through all the pitfalls, accidents and financial strains
In every trial still our love remains

In sickness and in health, we bridge the gap of the void
Through all the turbulence suffered and moments we’ve enjoyed

Back pain, heartache, bad habits, and the dread of mundane routine
We keep moving forward to realize all the more the hope of our every dream

Whether of our own house or a borrowed season amid our long
Anywhere you are is home to me, because in your heart is where I belong

Closeness preserved despite the wedges that try to drive there way in
Mercy, compassion, and understanding, in the lessons of failure and redemption

You are my best friend through it all
My confidant and comrade in spiritual arms
More than just a fleeting passion or honeymoon phase
More than vanity or surface charms
You are a beacon of hope in my darkest days

Generic as these words feel, inadequate to express
How thankful I am to have you despite the ways I’ve been a mess

You are the stint of every fracture of the past
As God aligns our values and resets our bones in a one flesh cast

As we out love and live down every sin, of fathers, or lovers that proved a fraud
With every passing moment we draw on grace and submit ourselves to God

Even as I am one that at times has let you down
You’re still the one I love and one of the greatest treasures that I’ve found

Happy anniversary amid the growing pains of love reborn as we journey onward to another year
No matter what life brings us, as long as there is breath in my lungs, I’ll always be right here…

Bazinga Punk

You call it just another day

But I know that it is so much more

As God fashioned you in your mothers womb

All the plans He had in store

When every year we celebrate the gift of life

You were born for so many things and among them to be my wife

Aiming to convey how special you are to me

Your beauty and your virtue draws out the husband that I am called to be

The foresight of the Father, prophetic to foretell

As you were created

A gift given to the earth

A gift in my life as well

Our love crafted and stated

On this day that marks our union and your birth

One day to remember and never be forgotten

Happy Birthday now and forevermore

On this day, your life is our love begotten

I die to myself for love’s sake, because you’re worth dying for

A new year and chapter to begin again

I love you more, bazinga punk, I win…