Anniversary Poem

Although I know you already know

I need to say it again and again:

I love you and you are my favorite.

I could not have foreseen 19 years in

our love would not yet reach a plateau.

Though much has changed, what’s important remains.

It sounds cliché to say our love has grown,

But the passing of time is not the cause.

We grow closer inside a crisis zone.

It’s not that chaos doesn’t cause strain,

But

When life gets intense, I can count on you

to have my back and fight alongside me.

There are days when I feel I don’t deserve

such support given unconditionally.

I know you could not ever be untrue.

This is why I feel the need to repeat

the words you have heard quite frequently:

I love you and you are my favorite,

Unconditionally and completely.

Without you I would exist incomplete.