What Do You See In Me?

I’ve often wondered what you see in me And how it is I came to be so lucky To find someone of your deep beauty Willing to share a lifetime together Struggling through the thick and the thin And standing by my side through it all. Yes, you, who could have had any man at all Of your own free will choose to marry me Even though even then my hair was starting to thin How could it be I got so lucky To find someone who has it all together And on the outside, as well is in, displays so much beauty? This truly is the story of the beast and the beauty And I am the envy of all Many of whom said we would never stay together And here, so many years later, you are still with me What prayer was answered to make me so lucky When everyone said the ice I stood on was thin? Maybe my reasons for wondering this are thin Maybe it is hard for me to accept you don’t mind my own lack of beauty Maybe it is not at all because I am lucky Maybe the reason why we enjoy love at all Is because you accept me as simply being me And the beauty emits from us being together. I’ll stop wondering then what keeps us together Because I’ll always love you, fat or thin And I’ll accept you have the same feelings for me And in each others’ eyes we will always see the beauty That together holds it all And it has nothing to do with being lucky. And if it turns out that we both get lucky Staying oh so many years together I will look back and remember it all As if written in a book not so thin The story of this beast and this beauty And no longer wonder what you saw in me. I pray that other men are so lucky, even those with hair this thin To somehow put it all together, so that they overcome their own lack of beauty. Because when it’s said and done after all, why shouldn’t others be as happy as me? Entry in The Sestina contest