Love Me Tender...

PAD Challenge day 26: For today’s Two-for-Tuesday prompt:

• Write a love poem. Or…
• Write an anti-love poem.  

 (to hubby)

We’re broke: the coin of fancy words won’t fix our maladies

And promises for things we cannot change will not appease

Poor human-nature tendencies; tell me, what can we do

But simply this, my darling, to love tender, to love true

The dream-girl you invented when we were perfect; sixteen

Has long since disappointed Fantasy’s idyllic mien

And my Mr. Prince Charming was a frog, but I love you

And all that I ask in return is love me tender, true

We’re broke: and joke about it in our half-a-hundred years

And marvel at the way time plays with us then disappears

I shake my head at your small talk, you laugh at how I chew

…we’re perfect for each other, love is tender, love is true

© Janet Martin

I'm not gonna lie...we've had a roller-coaster relationship but we're in it for the long haul...pun intended.

(Hubby is a long-haul truck driver;-)