i want to grow old with you.

i want to wake up to your face every day.
i want to snuggle with you during thunderstorms,
and i want to eat cereal with you in the mornings.
i want to have pet fishes together,
and have funerals for them when they die.
i want to go to the bookstore with you on saturdays,
and read scary books all day.
i want to go grocery shopping with you,
and have you complain because i take too long.
i want to buy socks together.
i want to do laundry together,
and clean the house together on saturday mornings.
i want to read the sunday comics on sunday nights,
and watch the news together when we can't sleep.
i want to buy cold medicine for you when you're sick.
i want to have barbeques with our neighbors,
and i want to play with our kids in the backyard.
i want you to kiss my forehead every night before we go to sleep,
and i want to kiss your cheek every morning when we wake up.
i want to come home to you every night.
i want to have grandchildren with you,
and great grandchildren with you,
and tell them about all the things we've gone through together.
i want to wrap presents with you for our kids at christmastime,
and pretend they are from santa claus.
i want to watch scary movies with you every halloween,
and go trick or treating with our kids.
i want to call you when i'm having a bad day work,
and have you tell me that everything will be okay.
i want you to come home through the door after you get home from work,
and say, "honey I'm home!" like they do on leave it to beaver.
i want our kids to make fun of us,
because we don't know any of the songs they listen to on the radio.
i want to be the person that makes everything okay in your life.
not perfect.
not extraordinary.
just a little better than they were before.
i want to love you,
and i want you to love me.
and i want that to be enough.