All my life I have searched for you

In the face of every stranger

In the arms of countless lovers

Occasionally catching a glimpse of heaven

Or a fleeting taste of ambrosia

Still it was only a hint of what could be

Just a tantalizing peek at paradise

Continually just beyond my grasp

But the promise of it always there

Now I hold the reality in my arms

Everything that came before disappears

And my life begins here, and now, with you

Terri Lyn Stanfield

8/14/2001