A Modest Toast

A Bit Of Words

                                      A Modest Toast

 

Happy birthday my queen a modest toast for you on this important day

 

Cheers to the most amazing lady that has ever graced the screen of this heart's theater

The single a list star in this picture of heaven

The subject of endless lyric - participant of incomparably pleasant dreams 

 

To a lady of such astute stature a woman of elegant defiance

wielding a determination so sharp

it would cleave the most formidable castle in two

with a single swing 

 

A ravishing knockout with body,  brains , style and charm

with compassion and kindness and honest intent 

With wit and grace and mischievous laughter

a debilitating weapon if ever there was one designed outside a lab

 

A portrait of regal humility even if glanced through this set of pedestrian eyes 

and though they glance your way

and do not yet share the status of royalty 

does that mean that their observations are worth less

 

that the heart cant sing songs with the same passion

of those who have been born into knighthood

or cant crave one of your smiles

that are more precious than dragon tears 

or long for a kiss that could ignite a class war

and convince the most devoid of faith

that in fact there is such thing as paradise

beyond the crutch of the coin

You offer hope - hope that tomorrow

i can be a better man than i am today 

You accept candor with grace 

You make me strive to achieve that goal

and so many more every day

Its thoughts of your touch that make the most simplistic - and to some - mundane of activities

seem like adventures out of time.

where a heroine can stand and create beauty make absolutely no compromises

 and can even make the most normal of circumstances explode with vitality
and earnest revelation of a perspective yet to be accepted

 

although somehow it seems as poignant and revealing as an angelic stained glass window
thriving in the ruminations of the shoddy wood-workings
of those so devout they never considered modern conveniences to be an option
when they were building the fortress that houses the heart you have owned for so long