The Wedding Poem

When friends asked if I would write a poem for their wedding, I responded with an enthusiastic "Yes!" What an honor! I let the poem incubate in my mind for awhile, then woke up at 2:30 AM last week and wrote the following. The bridal couple LOVES it; and in the absence of the grooms mother at the June 20th wedding, I was also asked to step into this "temporary" role as well. Another honor! ... I think you'll like this. Feel free to share. The Wedding Poem: Love looks out at the world from its hiding place, waiting for days, for weeks, for what seems like a lifetime to be found. It has hidden in the only place you haven’t looked, until now. Now, something or someone slows your step, takes your hand, and turns you aside from the dreamscape of your life. In this moment, time stands still. There is only this moment. There are only these eyes looking deeply into your own. There is only this circle of breath that surrounds you, that nourishes you. This Other is the one who loves you. This Other is the one who has been waiting for you. This is the moment that surpasses all logic; when one plus one equals a greater ONE-ness. This is the moment of your surrender. You are OK with whatever happens next. There is nothing else that needs to be done. There is no need to know exactly where you are, or where you are going. This is what surrender feels like. It is a safe place. Your love makes it so. This expanding circle of breath and light that surrounds the two of you is your Universe, and it is filled to the edges of all that is, with your Love. Within this circle, you are at peace, peaceful, joyful, and filled with laughter at discovering how easy it is to simply BE what love looks like. You can be silly, you can be serious; you can be filled with gratitude for having been found, at last. And in this moment of surrender, of silliness, of unknowingness, the miracle happens. The doors to life open wide. The windows into the world of each other swing wide open. Sunlight floods in, Arms that have been searching for you embrace you. The winds rise to blow away all doubt. Storm clouds emerge and diminish, their rain nourishing the ground beneath your feet. Everything around you is growing anew. Love has settled in, at last, and made a home for itself in your heart.