Dan Mooney

Love is shown in many ways–
In holding hands, in greeting cards,
In making long-term memories,
And sharing family holidays.

Love is seen at many times–
In goodbye hugs, in pecking cheeks,
In chocolate and in flowers, too,
And crafting lovely, heartfelt rhymes.

But love, romantic love, is more than those,
And often less romantic than it seems:
The one with whom you choose to spend your life,
Becomes the person of your dreams.

When youth is gone, and wisdom takes its place,
And what is said and done has all been done,
It’s being there, through everything, that shows
The love of two becoming one.

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What’s the meaning of this?

Well, for a few years there I worked at a TV show called As the World Turns. One day I got a call from upstairs: Production needed a poem for a character called Luke to recite at the wedding of two characters called Alison and Aaron. A quick Googling showed the same popular love poems I’d seen in many previous searches, so with little prodding, I took it upon myself to tailormake this bit of verse, knowing at the time something of love. The poem made it to the final script, so crossing that off the bucket list, I tuned in for it but alas, it had been cut from the air show (Alison and Aaron’s marriage didn’t work out, probably because of this). CUT TO: Two years later. Another wedding, another phone call, another chance for poetry. So I pushed this along, and later today Abigail might read some of it, and it’ll be our last goodbye.

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EDIT 2/10/11

I found a copy of the recitation of those not-so-corny middle eight lines:

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