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…