One brick, set firmly into the ground
Here is where we build our home, for you and me, for our memories and the first step towards forever
Another brick, laid adjacent outlines our intentions to hold space on the suple skin of this great land
Here is where we will begin to build the hallway that you will walk down, dancing in the glow of Sunday morning sunlight
A foundation, a definition of our place in this world to keep safe and shelter us from foul weather that shakes this dirt
Here is where we will confide in each other’s presence, our love contained in these walls that surround us and reach towards the heavens
A wooden floor, oak stained red with deep grain like the veins that carry this love through our beings
Here is where two lover’s footsteps wear the planks and tell stories of time together, may they always support you and keep you grounded in family
A window, framing the woman I love like a portrait of perfection painting the world with colorful flowers and a glory that will live to outlast our tale
Here is where I will watch you kneel before our humble patch of soil and plant your beauty in the body of our family’s land, the greatest gift you ever gave this world was showing her the iridescent colors of your garden
A big blue door, that swings wide as I return to you when life carries me away from the only place I’ve ever truly belonged
Here is where you will run to me as that old rusty truck stirs up dust down the last road home, I never quite learned how to say goodbye in a way that made missing you hurt any less
An old tin roof, the instrument of falling rain that plays a symphony of summer storms, the storms that give reprieve from late July heat
Here is where we will listen to melody of nature’s song while two lovers embrace, I fall into you time and time again, tangled in limbs that promise to never let me go
A collection of picture frames, memories of seasons past and time we have spent growing old together
Here is where they will watch the story of us unfold, exposing roots intertwined, the branches of our family’s tree dance in winds of winter approaching
A house of our own, buried deep in the fragrant evergreen pines of a Catskill wood
Here is where we will cherish the twinkle of your light that glistens in your daughter’s eyes, I pray that your beauty proves eternal as she grows in your image and shines long after we are gone
Together we will build, brick by brick
A place for two lovers
Together we will live, moment by moment
A place for our family
Together we will grow, year by year
A life so perfect
A life everlasting, constructed on a foundation of unconditional love
With the hands that hold your heart, I shall build you a house
A place for you to make a home
Together, forever