After Six Years of Yesterdays

After Six Years of Yesterdays

Peter T. Atkinson

I promised you all my tomorrows,

And now after six years of yesterdays,

I love you as much today as ever.

Thank you for who you are to me,

And who you are to our girls, and

As we grow into the future, becoming

The you and I we will be, let us

Mark the years, counting one by one,

For if they all fly by like these six have,

We will be looking back on more

Than we can imagine, quicker than

We can conceive, as our lives chase

Our dreams, or is it the other way

Around? The lines somehow seem

Blurred in the uncontrollable, wild,

And constant motions of love, like

Ocean waves, crashing over unseen

Holes underfoot. We walk, side by

Side, and hand in hand, we lean,

We stumble, we fall, but always

Are we together, you and I walking,

Step by step, along the path as we

Are being led through life by Love.