daddy's home

i saw him standing there, his shadow resting on the wood panels to our home.  he wasn't supposed to be there.  'away on business' were the three words that had replaced the most important trilogy in our speech, the 'i love yous.' but there he was standing in the doorway, reminding me what butterflies felt like after all these years.  he still had the desire to surprise me and the stealth to pull it off.  his charm was in our vows, i swear it was.  through thick and thin, in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer and to be charming for all the days of our lives, i was very much in love with him.  and the surprise was not that he was home while i was missing him, but rather that he still wanted to come home against all odds.