So, most people that know me and Josh, know that we met online through a dating website. It was the summer of 1999. I was at K-State in the dorms and bored and I put up a profile. I got a bunch of perverts and military guys from Ft. Riley that replied. There was one guy that wanted to meet me and he seemed fairly normal. Me and a friend met up with him and his friend and we went to his house to watch a movie. But he lived in his parent's basement and the movie was Evil Dead 2! Yuck! Then one night I was at the library doing research for my expository writing paper (I wrote about Christians and Tattoos and got an A!) I checked my email and there was one with the subject "An Angel for you". I literally LOL'd and clicked it. The guy seemed really sweet. He did mention he lived with his mom, despite being 22, but I could work with it. I emailed him back and we hit it off. He worked construction and lived with his mom to help her with the bills. He had a dog that he loved and he wrote poetry. I told him that I wrote poetry, too! We emailed back and forth that whole night and even talked on the phone. The next day he emailed me a link to his poetry website, which included a picture (my first glimpse at what he looked like!) We met face-to-face just a few days later and the rest, as they say, is history.
So.....here is the "something cool" I promised you in the title. The link to Josh's old poetry website :)
http://members.tripod.com/king_dude/
He did update some of the info after we got together but the poems are the same...and so is the picture!
It was as I was reading through all those poems when I realized this was a dude I could definitely give my heart to. He was like me! Josh would never admit that. He thinks we are polar opposites. He doesn't think we have anything in common. He used to joke that he didn't really believe in opposites attracting until we met. But when I read through his poems I saw a kindred spirit. It wasn't just the fact that he wrote poems and was okay with putting his feelings out there....unlike about 90% of the guys I've ever met...there was a familiarity in his words that spoke directly to my soul. I was 18 and he was 22 but I knew I had found my soul-mate. I know it sounds ridiculous and like some sort of corny lifetime movie...but it's true. Oh, sure the bastard drives me insane and pisses me off about 6,895 times a day. Most days I wonder if I even LIKE him...let alone LOVE him...but then I read through these poems from his youth and remember that we are the same...and I think..how could I NOT love him?
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