June 2, 1990: Kindling the most important romance of my life…
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I met Beth Kiefert right at the beginning of the Spring semester in 1990. Aside from being awed by her beauty from the very first time I saw her, in our first conversations in the design and statistics classes we shared that semester, she impressed me with her brightness, sense of humor, kindness, and upbeat nature. One of five children, she let me know right away that family was very important to her, and as the weeks passed, after just a few stumbles, we found ourselves on pretty solid ground with each other. Fast-forward to June, and I was already hopelessly love-struck. With Beth set to depart soon for a 6-week backpacking trip to Europe with a couple of her girlfriends, I summoned my best inner-poet and wrote her the following words.
Nearly nineteen years later, I’m still hopelessly love-struck. Happy Valentine’s Day to you, love of my life.
by Roger Darnell
I looked all through a book of verse
but nowhere in its authors’ terse
elaborations did it grace
a rhyme I felt could fill this space.
Where once no words had seen the sun
I’ve thought to build a sprightly, fun
and potent piece with loving point:
to wound your heart — but then anoint
it — with a potion made from scratch;
the contents: all of me. A patch,
hand-sewn by all the powers that be,
will heal your heart, and render “we.”
I hope a poem can make such mark;
can leap from page to fire such spark!
For, should these markings do their work
your love for me will go berserk!
And nowhere, save within my grasp,
shall you ever hope to pass.
My Beth, you’re all my heart desires:
Here’s to our love-long cozy fires.
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