today I love him more than I did on our first passionate date

I think about old age. 

I guess I'm that now, but 

no, not yet. I still look 

 

forward to dinner with my 

Sweetheart. Forty years 

we've been together, and 

 

today I love him more 

than I did on our first 

passionate date. 

 

We both knew about bad 

marriages, so we didn't 

do that. We've made each 

 

day the beginning of 

our love affair, and 

often marvel about it 

 

with one another, as if 

we've just stepped out 

together on our first date. 

 

[Jill Breckenridge from 'Sometimes in my Seventies', from Sometimes: Poems]