Original Poem

Sir Warrior
For Doug: Love always!

As I dip my thoughts into time elapsed to shades of gray

and touch gently upon images now aged to stone

fear and doubt are left trembling,

then consumed by a revolutionary evolution from pain to ecstasy

I stood wallowing in the shadows of monster dismay

for my world, my God and my beliefs were hard to bear

If not for the healing salve of love's forgiveness and care

my fight would have been laid to rest with my resolve.

But a moment frozen in time, a moment devine as your hand reached for mine,

cradled it in your own made the harmony of our lives growing together

mesh and mingle like sun through rain

and heaven's angels in concourses draped in white

sing praises to the chance you took to lift my face to the sky

For they won back one warrior to battle these days

just as I have won the prize of eternity with you!
Amanda Fluhman Wright