Age and Beauty

I wrote this to my wife Brittany 7 years ago when we first met..

Age and Beauty

Her beauty was that of a princess in a fairy tale with a body

that was as perfect as a bottle of hundred-year-old red wine.

He was a poet that wrote of beautiful women just like her

in all his epic love poems all the time. She was the timeless

beauty who had the essence of Marilyn Monroe he wanted

to create a new poem written all over her body on a blanket

under the light of a full moon and all the stars up in the skies

on some hot midsummer night, two hearts who were lost

that want to beat as one just trying to find their way in this

lonely life, but alas time was not on his side. She had all the

time in the world as she was just starting her life, and he

was halfway through his they were friends though he

secretly he wanted much more, for he was the age when

he wrote of love from the beginning of time. She was all

the beauty of this world that he dreamed of and all the

masterpieces he would write whenever she was around

yet she never even had to make a sound. The poetry that

he wrote in his head was simply amazing and the ones

that he wrote for the world to see were absolutely lovely

as could be. She was just as wild as a northern wind in

a perfect storm with a wild soul that wanted so much

more out of life than she has seen so far. He lived a

thousand lives with her in his dreams that would play in

his mind whenever he would close his eyes, she knew

too and was so amazed by his words that he wrote to her.

Maybe one day she will know that she was his Juliette

his Monroe was his secret love that she would never

know. Her beauty never faded for him just like all of his

feelings that saturated his mind with the thoughts of her

every day and night his heart was always hers from the

start his soul that would forever feel young because

one day on a hot midsummer night age and beauty

finally came together to write a masterpiece of love

that only they would ever know the words to that

would forever be etched in all the fabric of time as

they wrote a classic piece of poetic art together

that will last always and beyond forever as age and

beauty came together as friends and lover's husband

and wife in every love poem that was and will be ever

written of all time.

Poet Richard M Knittle Jr.

A Poet's Journey