Years Together

We've traveled several rocky roads together
Sometimes I didn't think we'd get this far

Years of trying polished off the edges
Because we both possessed the will to try.
What we got is one of life's great treasures
A garden on the shifting sands of time.

Love demands a kind of self-surrender
That sometimes is with difficulty won
All who join in marriage must endeavor
To make another's happiness their own

This sacrifice quite often seems so easy
But day by day and year by year it's not
Trust enables one to love completely
Living with one's charity unlocked

Our love is like a deep and verdant valley
Nestled in the mountains of desire
Though all of life's a dream that passes quickly
We've made a place among the circling stars