Rhymes For A Reason

Today was not my typ­i­cal morn­ing. Usu­ally we all wake up at the same time and I chauf­feur my two favorite ladies — my sis­ter Lesya and my lovely wife Can­dace — to their appointed des­ti­na­tions. But this morn­ing was dif­fer­ent. I could barely open my eyes. The bed felt so com­fort­able and I just did not want to get up. I finally dragged myself out of bed and put on my clothes. My sis­ter felt like she was get­ting sick so she decided to stay home and rest. Can­dace and I got in the car and I drove her to work.

The day before, we did not get much time to chat about her week­end in Seat­tle so we tried to catch up a lit­tle bit in the car. But what is five min­utes with a per­son that you are so deeply in love with? I didn’t feel sat­is­fied. I dropped Can­dace off and headed back home. As I was dri­ving in the car I felt an over­whelm­ing  feel­ing of love for Can­dace that gave me goose­bumps. I could not con­tain myself. I didn’t know what to do. The love for my wife, lover, and friend felt so great! I couldn’t remem­ber the last time I felt such a deep emo­tion. I walked inside our home and sat down in front of my com­puter. Usu­ally I start either edit­ing pho­tos or doing some other work for Prokopets Stu­dio.  But today there was no way I could focus on work. Instead I started typ­ing out lines after lines. They rhymed and felt so easy to write.  This was some­thing com­pletely out of the ordi­nary. The first line was, “Good morn­ing beau­ti­ful girl, the only one in the world.“  Now please under­stand, I don’t EVER write poetry! But today I did.

I am one lucky guy. I am mar­ried to the most pre­cious and lov­ing woman. She draws me closer to Jesus and I am a bet­ter man today because of her. Love has the amaz­ing power to change peo­ple. It also causes you to do crazy things such as writ­ing poetry.

I love you, Candace!