Cuddles is
such an appropriate name
for Carol, who’s
always been so game
to work or play or
show a smile
or walk and talk
with me a mile.
Nicknamed “Smiley”
by her peers
after years of
silent tears
before into her
life I came
and brought her
poems to bring her fame.
She raised three
children on her own
when her Ex had
left the home
and piled on her
tax debts so deep
softly then, she
did so weep.
All that changed
one day in May
A man of God came
in to play.
Our hands did
touch, a fuse was lit,
dead hope revived,
Faith didn’t quit!
By June I’d vowed
to never leave
and to her only I
would cleave.
more closely than
she'd ever thought
God such love and
harmony brought.
God caused our
lonely paths to cross
and took away the
years of dross
and all the aching
loneliness,
God, our lives, did
surely bless
with opened eyes to
clearly see,
His plans for our
lives to so be
so well blended,
intertwined
with fellowship and
love divine,
for dreams
fulfilled, so marvelous, sweet
far beyond all our
hopes so meek.
Four weeks after we
met she wore
a ring that bode of
love and more.
But when I heard of
her nickname
I sought another
name as game
to clearly tell the
mounting joy
she’d brought to
heart of this man-boy,
The years of
yearning for that touch
of someone who’d
care for me so much
and love me midst
the cold and rain
or thorns of
circumstantial pain,
Cuddles became her
name for me,
‘cause she caused
me to so see
how God had blessed
our years of tears
with hope alive for
future years.
Desires fulfilled,
companionship,
‘til the sun in our
lives dips,
hands we hold as we
walk to the store
hands we’ll hold
along life’s shore
and gaze across the
waves of life,
hands we’ll hold as
storms of strife
at times do blow
outside the door
of inner peace and
joy and more.
“Smiley” became her
name at work
because of joys not
hid on earth
as love fulfilled
with harmony
became God’s touch
of purity.
And yet because her
gentle touch
has come to mean so
very much,
“Cuddles” became an
appropriate name
that fit so well
because she’s game
for cuddles
reserved for me alone
until we come
before His Throne
and do kneel there
in worship sweet
love fulfilled
beyond the deep.
Cuddles is now her
new nickname
for Carol, my mate,
my wife is game
to travel this road
of life with me
to face the future
that we see,
with smiles
assured, with God in mind
such harmony, we'll
surely find,
with grace and
love, with all the flame,
Cuddles is such an
appropriate name.
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