I'm terribly embarrassed, but I need grammar help on this little poem please.......

[a kennedy]

It's for my husband's anniversary card....can someone please correct anything wrong in the grammar department....and thank you.

As in the essence of the Opal......

The ups and downs,

The positives and negatives,

The happy’s the sad’s,

The laughs the cries....

All facets of our 34 years.....

Together, I’ll love you forever.

[arcane1]

1. I'd lose the apostrophes in "happy's" and "sad's", but otherwise I like it :)

[a kennedy]

2. thanks....

and done.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Happy Anniversary!

I think he'll love it!

And I agree about the apostrophes.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

4. I can only offer a Buddhist birthday card

Forget the past. It's gone and you can't change it.
Forget the future. It hasn't happened and you can't predict it.
Forget the present. I didn't buy you one.

edited to add Congrats!

[onehandle]

5. Poetry and emotion does not have to be subject to grammar.

This isn't a cover letter for a job application.

[Raffi Ella]

6. That's beautiful.

Happy Anniversary!

[Ino]

7. Add commas after happys and laughs

and lose the apostrophes in happys and sads

Beautiful poem!

[mrmpa]

8. I woud...........

write:
The happy and the sad, not pluralize it. Also the way I've written, it follows the preceding line which uses the word "and".

[oldandhappy]

9. Lovely!!

Happy Anniversary. I agree with the above suggestions re ' and ,. Really, what matters is that you are still together and you wanted to do this. Huge hugs.

[Skittles]

10. I'd make it - the happys, and the sads

and per a previous suggestion - the laughs, and the cries


it's very simple and very lovely

[UTUSN]

11. Besides the happys/sads, I'd add the "together" to the "34 years" line

"Together, I'll love you forever" sounds like, I'll ONLY love you if we're together.