Johnny Cash: Poet, Songwriter and King of Love Letters — Dave’s Diary

Feb. 14 is the day set aside for love, and over time we’ve come to expect grand gestures -- like 6 million Americans becoming engaged, which WILL happen this year!But true love is 24/7/365 and every day is a good day for an expression of love.  Earlier this month, life insurance company Beagle Street polled 1,000 adults to uncover the best love letters ever written. The votes have been tallied and the winner is ... a 1994 love letter penned by none other than Johnny Cash.

The famed musician wrote the message for June Carter, his wife, on her 65th birthday. In the incredibly sweet note, Cash refers to his wife as “Princess,” and insists that she is the greatest woman he’s ever met.

It’s clear from his letter that the pair were very much in love — perhaps, even, that they were soul mates. So here is what the voters determined to be the greatest love note ever written.

Happy Birthday Princess,

We get old and get used to each other. We think alike. We read each other’s minds. We know what the other wants without asking. Sometimes we irritate each other a little bit. Maybe sometimes take each other for granted.

But once in awhile, like today, I meditate on it and realize how lucky I am to share my life with the greatest woman I ever met. You still fascinate and inspire me. You influence me for the better. You’re the object of my desire, the #1 Earthly reason for my existence. I love you very much.

Happy Birthday Princess.

John

And in the musician’s last performance before his death, he told the audience: The spirit of June Carter overshadows me tonight with the love she had for me and the love I have for her. We connect somewhere between here and heaven. She came down for a short visit, I guess, from heaven to visit with me tonight to give me inspiration and courage like she always has.