"Marriage is not only time: it is also, paradoxically, the denial of time. For forty years I saw myself through John's eyes. I did not age."
~~ Joan Didion

Not marriage. Love.

To wake knowing you are beautiful
despite what time has done
because in one moment
his eyes will open
and he will see you
and he will smile, indeed: glow
and say
Good morning, Sweet Heart
and
kiss your hair