Lessons From Life - Christmas 2000 - Rochester, MN

~~@ Angela Wilcox, 2016 .  Found this in a stash of pictures as I unpacked a box today.  I thought it had been lost.  It was written as a gift to my girlfriend at that time, after a very long year.  While our relationship did not last a life-time, I have many gifts from it that definitely will.

With the dawn of the new millennium,

Little did I suspect,

The lessons that life would have for me,

Truths I would come to respect.

The wisdom I have gained this year,

will always serve me well,

And since you were a part of these,

My lessons now I'll tell.

I learned that love cannot be left,

To manage on its own.

It needs consideration, thought, and deeds,

To flourish and be known.

I learned that love won't conquer all,

But that it can endure.

That love can overcome our faults,

And help our hearts be pure.

I learned that life's about today,

That may be all we get.

So fill each day with passion, joy,

Learn to live, to forgive, to forget.

I learned, most of all, of the wonder of you,

A treasure I came close to losing.

That you are a gift beyond all compare,

And that has been of your choosing.

When we are old and look back at the dawn,

May our lives have been lived, no regrets.

May these lessons we learned in this very hard year,

Sustain us, as one, as a set.