Love walks in – a long awaited visitor

Bearing an armload of packages

Gifts to me all beautifully wrapped

In brightly colored, shiny paper

Boxes of all shapes and sizes

My eyes light up – joy barely contained

As they are placed before me

Which to open first?

I choose a small yellow box

The color of sunshine

Inside a smile that lights up the room

The next one blue and brilliant as the summer sky

In it, hopes and dreams and plans for our future

There’s a pink one full of joy and happiness

The likes of which I haven’t seen

Since I was a giddy young girl

A purple box, the color of royalty

To remind me that I’ll always be your queen

Green to let me know we’ll be financially secure

Then a box of deepest red

Promises of pure unbridled passion

The last box seems as large as the room

It’s gold and tied with a huge red bow

I know its contents without looking inside

A package this big can only contain your heart

© 2009 – Andrea J. Shannon