Your face has only lost a little of its youthful shine
Your hair has grown just a little more sparce and fine
Your eyes show the strain of sadness over time
Just like mine

And still you are radiantly beautiful, aged like vintage wine
that cannot be served right off the vine
but has to stand for years, biding its time
in the cold cellars, of jilted, broken, love in youthful prime

And here I ponder your photo and see you as a beauty
as clearly as I see the sun and feel its heat of day
You're beautiful and your beauty radiates the same way
to cast out the darkness of night and to make go away

Your supple glistening lips pursed and neck cocked a certain way
shows me strenght and determination to compliment your soft way
And though I see the little flaws of time, you're a sweet wine
whose bouquet is deep and refined, as I sip you as if you were mine

If my heart has committed this crime
Please know that for this moment, I've done my penance
time again after time; Plese of it do not remind
Because I wish to stay here with you for a longer time

To hold your softest hand in mine
To imagine playing with your soft hair
To feel your gentle neck and to kiss your lips
As you genlty rest your burden and recline

Your sadness; make it mine!
Of you share and let me taste your wine
and linger on each precious temporal sip
So love might last until the end of time

With hopes our souls become forever entwined