Jubilee

Your smile
is the most beautiful vision,
the way your eyes light up
and your tender lips
curl up so perfectly...
Especially when your smile
is all for me.

I want to see your smile
all the time,
to be driven by its loveliness
and to ensure
that your lips never have need
of any other shape,
no other expression but joy.

Some men want the world,
to take power and fame,
to go where none have ever walked
to find the meaning of this world,
yet I have found
all of the meaning I could ever need
inside of you,
and there is no vista on earth
more lovely
than that of your smiling face.

And I want to do everything,
to see your smile
across the kitchen table,
to hold your hand
walking down the sidewalk,
to stroke your hair
as we cross the Verrazano.

Your smile makes me smile,
transforms my heart,
sets my soul alight
and there is nothing I wouldn't do
to keep you smiling,
and, my dearest love,
this is merely the beginning
of the jubilation
we shall share together.