If Love Is Like Light - A Poem For My Husband

If love is like light,

And I think it is,

Then you are my sun,

Providing warmth and energy.

If love is like water,

And I think it is,

Then you are the rain:

Consistent, gentle, sometimes fierce, 

Ever satisfying.

If love is like earth,

And I think it is,

You are soil 

Nourishing my growth.

So fortunately situated, I am, 

Roots deep in the heart of a virtuous man.

The strength in my frame,

The life in my limbs,

The fruit that I bear and have to give,

All testify to your great love for me.

Dear you are to me. 

And dear you are to God, too, 

I believe. 

For He tells husbands to love wives

As their own flesh.

And so you do.

Therefore, God and I both, 

Adore and honor you.   

-Veronica Boulden