By D. R. DiFrancesco
Dark of night casts no shadow upon you,
Your radiance like a shield rejects the approaching twilight,
Do you recognize your own brilliance?
A resounding no projects itself to the world.
From the first time I beheld you,
Captivated by an acumen cast by the maker himself,
Sharp and heated as a solar flare,
Scorched impressions left on everyone in it’s path.
Yet surviving within your universal turbulence is tenderness,
Soft and warm drawing in those most dear,
Contrary to your impetuous past,
You shine your bronze rays on all that surrounds you.
You are stellar and strong,
Divine in your organic beauty,
Any change would make you less than who you were meant to be,
Perfect in your humanly flawed design.
Dom DiFrancesco 
Being married myself, I really enjoyed reading this. Your wife is a lucky woman that you recognize her own innate beauty. It’s too easy almost to take for granted the wonderful qualities of the person that you marry when one gets busy with paying bills, working or raising children.
Thank you. I think I’m the one that is lucky. Yes we are both imperfect, but then again who isn’t? It is tremendously important never to take your spouse for granted and hopefully she feels that I haven’t. After almost 23 years we must be doing something right.
You are most certainly doing something right if you are celebrating 23 years of together! Maybe what matter is finding the beauty in the imperfections. I have been with my husband for 5 years, and it is a constant learning process. I would agree with you that it is important to never take your spouse for granted as he or she always chooses to be there.
The learning doesn’t stop no matter how long you have been married, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world. :)