TRUE LOVE

After thirty years of searching for love

I've found someone who loves me as i am

Who always smiles the first time they see me

If we've been apart,

Even for a few minutes.

Who sneaks up on me to give me a cuddle or a kiss

Saying "gotcha!"

Who tells me i'm "pretty"

when i wear makeup - or a new dress.

Who brings me presents

without ever having been asked.

Bus tickets, beetles, alfoil, or pretty bits of paper,

and "flowers"

(even if they are only leaves.)

All the things her father never did!