Ah!! You’re rarely seen before the opening! The lender of last resort! Going for your Irish charms in the hope of bringing good luck on St. Patrick’s Day! I don’t know if it will work for the economy, but it certainly works for me!! You’re dynamite! You’re starlight. You’re everything that feels great!! You in that outfit – sigh, you’re magnificent. Guys write themselves into corners, over you. They get themselves trapped in their own Rubik’s cube. They try too hard and find themselves in stalemates they created themselves, in the chess game of you. And they frustratedly wipe the board clean, … and start over again! For the umpteenth time. It goes on, over and over and over again. When previously nobody even got their attention, not for long, anyway, and certainly there was never this power! That’s what you do. Men suffer over you. Boys at heart of any age do, too. That’s just how it is. That’s simply how it goes. They write things and cringe and think, “Oh! I shouldn’t have written that! Well, it’s too late now! If I delete it, I’ll look even stupider. What if she noticed it already? That would make me look even worse! Ah, I’ve blown it already. I’m sure I blew it so long ago! And yet here goes nothing.” And *still* another post! It’s sad, it’s pathetic. Maybe so. But sometimes I hit it just right. At least I hope I do. And that’s what makes it so worth it!! Maybe someday when I’m looking good and life is filled with sunshine, you’ll see me, and something magical could happen. By magical, I don’t ever dream past an “Hello.” That would do it!! I can’t express how magical it would be. So no matter how stupid I feel today, maybe someday it will have all been for something worthwhile. You’ve taught me to grow up and act mature. No matter how things look, I really try hard to be steady – to be predictable, in a good way, when it comes to you. You’re the most beautiful woman in the world. It’s this effect you have on others. It’s simply what you do. That said, I do hear that voice in my head, “Oh, God, boy!! Get a grip!! Step away from the table! You’re making a fool of yourself!!” I know, what else is new? Pride? What’s that? I lost it so long ago. I don’t miss it all that much. It’s all so very worth it, when it comes to you. Because it’s funny – no matter how dark a day might look, tomorrow could look so much better! And so much of that brightness depends on who I am today. Did I screw up? Did I cry in my beer (well, sparkling water, in this case – or a little coffee)? Did I pitch a fit out of immaturity – “Oh! I can’t take this anymore! To heck with her and all of this!!” Or, did I steady my ship in the storm. And simply carry on, no matter how things look. You’ve taught me how to grow up. And you’ve taught me so much more. I’m a better person because of you. You’re the most beautiful girl on earth. I don’t ever hesitate writing it. It’s so obviously plainly true! Right on the face of it! Oh, that face of yours!! There’s so nothing plain about you! I think I’ve come to realize how impossible it is. I’m older, and even if your age, who could hold a candle to you? I mean, really. And yet you light up the whole place. You’re that amazing. You change people from the inside out. You’re that star who lights up *everything!!* I know my life must return to normal at some point – well, “normal” for me! But I’ve been holding on so dearly, because I never want to let go of this feeling. This feeling of you. The legend is I didn’t want to leave the womb, and it was a 40-hour labor. And in my life, I guess I acted the same way. Even when things weren’t great, I’d stay with what I knew – that is, until I was pushed into something bigger. Seemingly from a bigger source. But when I saw you, oh! That was it!! I have *never* seen anyone as beautiful as you. I’ve never felt in love before! And it’s been so good for me. It got me to express like I never before was able!! It’s even moved a few books – every word about you, and what it is you do. So, it’s so hard to let go. I don’t want to go back into the blue. I’ll just continue along, expressing little words and little songs, with no expectations. I may be stupid, but I’m not really that dumb. I can see the writing on the wall. But none of it is really with the desire that anything could ever happen. Not really, anyway. It’s just that I always feel a little bit better – a lot even!! – when I’m thinking of you. When I’m gazing at you, something profound happens. Inside of me. You have this effect on everyone – or a *lot* of people, anyway! You’re that touch of magic, when whole lives have been lived without feeling any. There is something so magical about you. So this ship will carry on. Some days the words come just right – on other days, it’s a mess. But maybe just once in a while you look and you smile, a little, and that makes it all right. You’ve taught me how to grow up and be stable. And steady. And someone more secure and mature. By pushing through the bad days, and never losing my cool. I love what you do to me. I promise I know the score. You are breathlessness and dreamy nights, you are sunshine on the shore in the morning. You pick me up, I feel held so tight. And you do it with a look from your eyes. You’re paradise. That’s just how it feels. And that’s how it goes. It’s all so worth it because I constantly feel a reward. You are loved so tremendously. So today is just another day, in a world that has gotten strange – even stranger than me! And that takes some doing! Does that make me normal in comparison? 😅 Is it possible I could be seen as cool, after feeling such a fool on some days? It’s kind of like me saying, “I was a *your name* lover, before it was cool!” But, of course, that’s one thing that’s always cool. You’re timeless that way. Your beauty is eternal. Guys see you and they act like fools, and maybe feel stupid for a moment, but then they say, “I’m ready to get back in again!!” It’s inevitable. You’re where the light is. With perpetually new hope. It all goes on around you. You’re loved in this big spectacular over-the-moon kind of way!! And today I got to see you smile!! What could be better than that? It’s always worth it with you. I’m here, and I saw you. That makes it a great day. ❤️  Happy St. Patrick’s Day to You!! 🍀