Finding My One

Every once in a while I attempt to write something other than a simple blog post.  I felt like pulling this one out of the attic to share with you, a poem I wrote for my wife during my last deployment.  It's not something you'd ever find published but it reminds me that she is always there with me, like the beat of my heart.

Finding My One
By Tom Clementson

You ask, how can I write words that seemingly saunter

Flowing across time’s endless pages

Recounting a love of infinite ages

               

Over desert paths and smoke filled skies

A heart invisibly, unknowingly searched and sought

For the One, with your familiar, determined eyes

From your kind and loving words that inspired

To a longing look of primal desire

My fingers trace your cheek and deeply I taste your lips

That familiar touch and our uncounted blessings

Your soothing tones and conversational flows

Merely outline a destined match of knowing souls

Your perfect imperfections,

From the very beginning I have loved every part

Culminating to a point in my awestruck heart

Of this blessing, of your love

Comes a motivation to earn and be worthy,

Of a life lived and bound with integrity

The funny faces

And easy paces

Marks this incredible and indelible life together

Thoughts of you and so simply they come,

Heartfelt prose, borne of my pure sense of veneration

Words for all that you are, inspired by my One