Amazing

Impossible

to describe

the splendor that is you

when words like love and pride

have withered in your light

and outgrown their useful measure

when words no longer come close

to saying what need be said

it’s beyond all that now.

In truth

I can make no claim

for the person you’ve become

you were always 

destined for greatness

no matter what

and you have proved me right

every day of your life.

The only word 

left for you is

amazing.

for kelly on her 30th birthday

Ken Owen   Van Niddy Press   March 2014