A Sonnet To My Wife Poem by Bill Wright

‘Tis more than forty years ago we wed
The lady of my love and my life
That sweet young girl with hair of auburn red
The one I am now proud to call my wife
We settled down and made ourselves a home
In years gone by we filled it with three boys
Now all moved out we are free to roam
Enjoy a house that's quiet with no noise
The birds have flown and left an empty nest
A calm that somehow does not feel quite right
A good life we have had and both feel blessed
To be as one approaching our twilight
In my eyes I still see that same young girl
And I would never swap you for the world.