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The best person I've ever known - deserves a poem.

GLADNESS

Recall with me those wild and free
passionate days of young glory,
with racing pulses at a touch,
      early in our story;

when hope met want and wanted hope
and doubt was given blind love’s eyes;
when sounds of discord were drowned out
      by laughter and by sighs;

when mystery and discovery
walked hand in hand along the way
and mutual findings, so lovely,
      enriched our every day;

when, parted any time at all,
we felt it much too long to bear;
and hunted hungry-eyed until
      we saw the other there.

A time of growing surety;
of testing out and finding good.
‘Could this one be the one for me?’ -
      and finding this one could.

That spirit found its oaken home.
The years have burnished love to gold;
mellow but stronger than its youth,
      though we have grown old.

Peace and joy - and rare sadness -
I’ve loved our walk through time Agnes.
Fresh then full, and promising more,
      we’ve shared a life of gladness.
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