I am madly in love with you. The word love only serves as a veil for the feelings I have for you. My world is enlightened when I see our children play. I’m comforted when we share the end of a day. I rejoice when at last the night over takes the day. I love you like Romeo loved Juliet in that romantic needing sort of way, but more deeply I think and in a more passionate way. Like Samson’s unrestrained love for Delilah, I love you in trust, sacrificially, every minute of every day.

Like Cleopatra to Mark Antony, you are my Aphrodite. Your timeless beauty gives life to my existence. The warmth of your body revitalizes mine. Your voice lifts my heart and gives life to my thoughts. Your love and passion drive me to lust and tempt me to ravish you in my every thought. You are my passion, my lust and the zeal that gives me life.

The greatest prophet of all times could never understand my love for you. Aristotle once said, "Happiness depends on yourself." If he could have understood how my happiness lies so comfortable in you he surely would have spoken differently. Had he seen how you soothe my contempt for others, he may have found better words. Sorrowfully, I feel he never knew such a love, such a peace, or such a woman as you.

Need is such a simple, almost call us word. Saying I need you implies I wish to posses you or in my greed keep you. Neither could be less true. My need for you is more basic than that. I need you like the darkness needs the light, the land needs the sea, or a flower needs sunlight. I need you like time needs memories and sound needs words. I need you to be complete, to be whole and to be filled.

I alone know and cherish these thoughts of my passion, lust, need and love. In my pen I would have to write with the very blood of life to adequately tell of my devotion. There are no words, no precedents that can demonstrate my feelings for you. Only my heart knows the depth of my emotions. A poet once said, we receive love roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love. I pray today for infinite capacity.

I cherish every moment with you. My thoughts and memories of you give me life when I’m alone. The anticipation of seeing you stirs my desires. My affections yearn to be quenched by your sensuality. My appetite for you is insatiable and my craving unquenchable. You are my dreams and my hope. For you I left my mother and for you I praise God.

My wife

My lover

My Friend

Yours in marriage.