play

before you were my wife, you told me without telling me, let’s play a game. the goal of the game is to love and laugh and learn. you’ll be the teacher, i’ll be the student. you will talk and talk and i will absorb every drop of knowledge with delight, like a flower turning to face the sun. then the roles will change. you’ll be a sad dog sometimes and i’ll be a gentle friend. i’ll pet your hair and tell you things are okay. i’ll ask you if you want a listening ear or solutions and you’ll nod yes or no. and then the roles will change again, and we’ll become more and more to each other.

we are trickster and hapless, gracious victim, court jester and king, partners in crime, makers of funny noises and irreverent phrases, performance artists of hugs and cuddles, bodies crossing in unexpected ways. with you, i could be anyone, there’s so much space to explore. i give you power and you return it; we gift and we receive and you make my soul stir; every day is play with you, and i hope it goes on and on and on, an undercurrent of light running through the rivers of our lives.