The Response to A Note IN Authentic Beauty

Nard handed me the book Authentic Beauty by Leslie Ludy with a note which you can read here. He started with poetry and through poetry I will also express my heart:

Yes on My 29th on March 9

You gave me nine reasons for yes, hesitations also amount to nine

Let me put first the eleven years of friendship from the Divine

If things won't work out what will happen to that

Fear to lose this friendship envelopes my heart

Next reason is just my foolishness plus a pride

Thinking of my own words that affirm my friends there's no feeling inside

Will a nod silence their question if we are tied

Or will this bring further questions beyond my mind

I am not into a perfect family; you know our struggles too

My obligation holds me; you know that's true

You have been with me through it all

Too much shoulder you have offered; will I ask for more

In addition to that I have given you lots of cares

For financial stability is always my prayer

Again, you have bear them all with me

Can I, again, involve you into a greater degree

Let us add to the list this frail body I have

For you know my health is not in good tide

This puts me to another worry

Can I then be the perfect complementary

I know you since we are about five or six

If familiarity is one of the criteria that would fix

Yet this area of courtship is very unfamiliar to me

Though many think I know a lot about this LCM bee

I am not a perfect person; still sinner inside

I fear the whole of me especially if self is not denied

If that happens I am pushed to this last hesitation

Could I be an effective partner in your Single Passion

Lots of what ifs and why's fill my mind

I could have nine reasons to say "No" to thine

But when you assured that God's grace will suffice

Then my heart with you in His hands I entrust

In any way I can serve Him more, there I'll be

If that means with you then I won't flee

May God be gracious as He always is

In this new path I take as I told you "Yes"

An Extraordinary Birthday Celebration

It is always a tradition as well as a challenge to save the best for our (Nard and I) birthdays. We want our gifts and even preparations be surprised and this is the most surprising gift I received. He handed me the book I long to have though actually the book itself is not a surprise for he already informed me not to buy that book for he would do it for me. What surprised me is the note which you can read below:

March 9, Year 29, Reason 9

Farcical was I by the age of fourteen

When proposal I made to a girl from Palaming

I know the shame being under that chico tree

Don't laugh when now, to you, it's through poetry

My antecedents here are generally childish

Like a boy losing against Yuri's Skirmish

But please endure and persevere to the end

I am just setting the stage for my message to send

First, you know that we both are already tired

Of students and friends asking if we're tied

Instead of stepping through miles of NOT

At least it will already suffice with a nod

Besides, Finals is near and fast approaching

I need someone who will assist in the checking

I don't want Mel, Anj, and Stan making a grin

When my class records to them appear clean

Allow me to state that I need a potential refuge

From a skinny guy who maybe needs the dude Freud

Don't want him to think of an imaginary reason

That her beloved Jean Grey is my obsession

For this next item, I fear to be misunderstood

For I envy those whose kids are so good

Christine Joy already has two nice Añonuevos

While our bellies to pageants will surely lose

I am perplexed how they change their status much

Considering mine is the same since Game and Watch

I am curious and to this river I want a sip

And see in my Facebook, "...in a relationship"

"Why on my birthday?" is a question you may raise

But it's known that dates on my head can't place

For one brain cubicle, March 9 will save me

Less I forget and make you upset or even angry

Moreover, March 9 is a perfect pocket asylum

For anniversaries' expenses not being premium

It will be nine days after we receive our last pay

And we need to be thrifty until the sixth day

I guess you now find it hard to follow through

That reason eight states my pity for you

Because today, you are just a step down 30

Drawing nearer to the words of Carolyn McCulley

Your bestfriend you know even before second grade

You know there is no grim in these rhymes I made

Enough of making these tiring stanzas silly

For my mood changes, now I am drafting sincerely

The Lord taught me how to see Authentic Beauty

Eventhough, not like you, I don't read Ludy

I fully rest on the Bible's infallibility

Exciting me to see your charm even at fifty

In you, united are orthodoxy and domesticity

And even apologetics and catholicity

I can't help but appreciate you to be pretty

For the GOD of glory defines you as lovely

You may doubt, as an abstract noun, it's not superb

But I promise my love will be an active verb

Times will be testing but there is a GOD of grace

So won't you affirm and to courtship with me say Yes?

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my answer is here