The Undiscovered Country

The Undiscovered Country                                         March 29, 2008

I know this is nothing for you, Blue,

You science fiction freak,

You Trekkie croon,

But this is something momentous for me,

For I have never laid these eyes

Upon anything so treasured

As this girl, ever red as a rose.

For years, I travelled down a path

Toward my own perdition,

And saw my resolve be torn to tatters.

Women often did pass me by,

But none gave me the look

You and I exchange now.

We saw each other as kids,

And now we meet again as adults.

I'm now Columbus making his landing

In the undiscovered country.

I never knew the true meaning of love

Until I saw you now.

I never understood about

The principle behind commitment

Until I talked to you how.

I never understood the primal urge

To love, to beg forgiveness and redemption

From sins against the loved,

To give her my soul

So that she may adjoin it to hers

Until I found the undiscovered country.

There's so much I don't know about this life,

So much, and that scares me, my friend,

But if I do say so myself, I will claim it any day,

That it gives me the thrill I never knew before.

I love you, and that's all that I need,

That, and a little of God's Grace that it'll stand.

I've finally come of age in these trying times,

For I've found the prophesied,

The undiscovered country.