With your hand in mine, I feel safe
With your arms around me, I feel warm
With your look at me, I feel strong
With your finger's caress, I feel fragile
With your kiss, I feel wanted

With your everything, I feel me
Without you, I feel **worthless

Staying at ground level reduces the length of the fall* ...

The rain on a cool February day is sorrowful music* ....

All aglow we were
from the smoldering
ember of love within.
Each felt the warmth
loving hearts exude
when we all were
in an extended embrace.
Then we heard love
singing to us sans words
"None of you would
feel complete
without the others
in this web of love
hereafter"

I.
A man with a generous heart
and kind smile of giving:
with a mind filled with wisdom and compassionate thoughts,
placing himself last and his loved ones first.
II.
He comes from a home where he is the middle child:
a father who loves farming,
a mother who loves cooking.
III.
He has the hands of a hardworking man,
hands that define a successful life:
a life of drag races,
construction sites,
and being a wonderful grandfather.
IV.
He is the man who provides more
for me and my family than he ever should have to.
He is the man who I want to walk me down the aisle on my big day.
He is the man who is my papa,
who holds a special spot in my heart.