Anniversary Song
Wednesday, April 2nd, 1980Love is whatever you make it
Just like the song that I sing
A cage or a perfect circle
This golden wedding ring.
We made a vow in a garden
Twelve years ago today
To build our lives in common
To link arms on our way.
Now look back on that moment
Where once the seal was set
And see our path returning
To the place where we first met.
We’ve lived in the big bad city
We’ve moved out on the land
But location no longer matters
It’s where we are we stand.
We blasted through the sixties
A searchin’ to be free
Came down to earth in the seventies
Accepting the limits of “me.”
And everything we wanted
And everything we tried
Has come and gone in the rushing stream
Has flourished and withered and died.
Except for one thing only
That stands against the flow
That time, instead of eroding,
Has strengthened and helped to grow.
And that’s what always is April
The moment under the tree
The love that we make together
The source of our family.
Palo Alto, April 2 1980
