Da Woid 'O De Dey

The "woid" today on dictionary.com just cried out for a post.

Uxorious: adjective; Excessively fond of or submissive to a wife! (exclamation point - mine!)

Excessive: adjective; going beyond the usual, necessary, or proper limit or degree; characterized by excess

Who has a the yardstick to measure excessiveness? That's what I want to know.

And if it's a man does he dare to come home at night? Is he even married? I don't trust him - he carries too much baggage.

Well maybe a woman has defined the point where the slippery slope starts. I don't trust her either. Right? What's her agenda?

Now that I've dug myself a deep hole...what do I do next?

A Valentine to My Wife

Accept, dear girl, this little token,

And if between the lines you seek,

You'll find the love I've often spoken—

The love my dying lips shall speak.

Our little ones are making merry

O'er am'rous ditties rhymed in jest,

But in these words (though awkward—very)

The genuine article's expressed.

You are as fair and sweet and tender,

Dear brown-eyed little sweetheart mine,

As when, a callow youth and slender,

I asked to be your Valentine.

What though these years of ours be fleeting?

What though the years of youth be flown?

I'll mock old Tempus with repeating,

"I love my love and her alone!"

And when I fall before his reaping,

And when my stuttering speech is dumb,

Think not my love is dead or sleeping,

But that it waits for you to come.

So take, dear love, this little token,

And if there speaks in any line

The sentiment I'd fain have spoken,

Say, will you kiss your Valentine?

Well at least it's not T. S. Eliot's Proofrock!