I found a card that my husband wrote me. He had counted the days we’d had together and then he thanked me for the love we’d shared each day. I read his card several times and I found it lodged in my brain many hours later. From that, my poem was born.

My love wrote me a poem:
“I’ve had you in my life. . .
Five thousand days and more,
You’ve been a loving wife.”

“What more can I wish for . . .
Five thousand days with you;
You made my life joyful;
The happy times I knew.”
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Those days flew by—I didn’t know--
I’d be alone – I never knew;
Five thousand days--were not enough;
Our time was short; our days too few!”