Still Waters Run Deep - True Love is Worth the Wait

For My Beloved Wife

Below are love letters from my husband, to me. 

Spontaneously sent via e-mail or left on a card through out the last 25 years of our marriage.

 As a sign of his affection for me.

Regarding “Our Picture”

by: Katherine Mansfield

We started speaking,

Looked at each other, then turned away.

The tears kept rising to my eyes.

But I could not weep.

I wanted to take your hand

But my hand trembled.

You kept counting the days

Before we should meet again.

But both of us felt in our hearts

That we parted for ever and ever.

The ticking of the little clock filled the quiet room.

"Listen," I said. "It is so loud,

Like a horse galloping on a lonely road,

As loud as a horse galloping past in the night."

You shut me up in your arms.

But the sound of the clock stifled our hearts' beating.

You said, "I cannot go: all that is living of me

Is here for ever and ever."

Then you went.

The world changed. The sound of the clock grew fainter,

Dwindled away, became a minute thing.

I whispered in the darkness. "If it stops, I shall die."

    Love,

        Dano

Happiness

by: Carl Sandburg 

I asked professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me,

    what is happiness.

And I went to famous executives who boss the work of thousands

    of men.

They all shook their heads and gave me a smile, as though I

    was trying to fool with them.

And then one Sunday afternoon I wandered out along the Des Plaines

    River

And I saw a crowd of Hungarians under the trees with their

    women and children and a keg of beer and an accordion.

Love, 

                  Dano