When I was a never-married single mother in my late thirties, I went back to school, hoping to start a career so I could better support my son. Since I loved literature, I took every English Literature class available.
I was a hopeless romantic. Things hadn’t worked out with my son’s father, we never married, and he moved out of state. But I still had dreams of finding my one true and forever love.
I’ve always loved poetry and the more romantic, the better. So, of course, when we studied the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, her most famous love sonnet went straight to my heart.
How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight…
A girl could dream! Someday, I hoped to find that kind of love.