1st Anniversary Poem by Nikhil Chandwani

Our bodies were so near, our breath mingling in the tension, the expectation and stimulation.
Though I've never questioned you, my own heart was full of panic, an anxiety of a known refusal.
I gazed into your enchanting eyes, their mahogany big, with delicate dark flecks,
Only hardly noticeable, a small clip of an image.
You looked back at me.

And said 'Yes.'

Like a movie cliché my spirit leapt at your expressions.
So beautiful it was, so charming, so everything I'd ever hoped it would be.
Thank you.
For saying yes and giving me the best year of my life.

Here's to the next, ten, fifty, hundred years together.
With you, it would be a life well lived.
May you maintain to say yes to this immature young romantic fool,
Whose old heart and feeling,
Is eternally infatuated by you.

I love you.