Beside the Plymouth Bean

I was proposed to on Christmas Eve this year next to one of my favorite Michigan coffee houses. Here is one of my little tributes to that special night :)

Beside the Plymouth coffee bean he stood

And asked me to sit

On bended knee he took my hand and then began to speak. We came here every trip’

He said. ‘I thought it would fit

To bring you here tonight, for what might soon open the doors to

one of the most important nights of my life. So many times have you sat

In front of the window at this cafe

Hoping, praying, and waiting for someone like me, to come along and

Sweep you off your feet. So many nights of agonizing-

Loneliness, and thoughts about your

Someday life. You wrote your heart onto the page as you

Plugged away at those keys, over a cup of English tea.

Coming up with little poems and stories that

Chiseled away your time. I thought it would be quite the thing to

Bring you here this Christmas Eve. ‘Will you marry me?’

To my beloved, Boyd Allen XoXo 

Love, Em ~