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Forever Love
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This poem was written by Tina Sullivan Rydberg in honor of her parent’s, Janice and Jimmie Sullivan’s 50th wedding anniversary. To read more about the anniversary party and to see the pictures, look in the Daily Journal on August 12, 2006 and the Photo Gallery under Louisiana – Houma – Sullivan Anniversary.
Forever Love
By Tina Sullivan Rydberg
It’s one of my favorite stories. I can listen to it time and time again.
The story that starts their journey and the way forever love began.
It was March 6, 1954, when he and his best buddy Todd Williams walked through that door.
His path would lead him into a place called the Moonlight Inn.
It’s there he saw her, his destiny. This beautiful girl with hair as black as sin.
His heart skipped a beat. He could not turn his eyes away.
He turned to his buddy and vowed – I’m going to marry that girl someday.
He was a young man of twenty-one. She was a teenager at fourteen.
They had each met their soul mate and in the eyes of their love this difference of age was unseen.
He would race his 53 Chevy through those back country roads.
He could not wait to reach her as the smile on his face showed.
She would wait with excitement on that porch with the swing.
She could not wait to see the face that made her heart sing.
On August 12, 1956 in St. Theresa’s Church before family and friends, and his Heavenly Son.
They vowed their love, and spoke those words that in the eyes of God bound them as one.
It was this place called Houma that they started their new life.
He was their provider. She was a 12th grade student and a wife.
Summers, Winters, Falls, and then Spring.
Their life would be blessed with a wondrous thing.
They would know the joy of becoming a Father and Mother.
They had a son and as the seasons passed he would become a brother.
They had their little girl. I came on a cold November day.
Little did they know that I would not be the last one on the way.
For after a time another would come to join my brother and me.
He entered the world on the 1st of May and would complete our family.
Through the years they guided us with love and then set us free.
They sent us out into the world to be the best that we could be.
Little angels one by one is how the third generation did start.
Each grandchild has a uniqueness that touches their Gonnie and Pop’s heart.
Four handsome boys and two beautiful girls will continue on with their bloodline.
Their eyes will follow them with love and their prayers will ask that they be fine.
Their love leads them to the celebration of this special day and on this beautiful occasion I have this to say.
It’s one of my favorite stories. I can listen to it time and time again.
The story that starts their journey and the way forever love began.
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