Just married

~ With love to Cole and Jenny ~

For the Newly Wed

By Kathleen Kimball-Baker

What do you see

when your eyes lock

and nothing moves or whispers?

Do you behold yesterday 

long stretching hours

aloft like a cat’s elevator back?

Do you see tomorrow

blowing full of plans

like a sail in the Apostle Islands?

Do you glimpse this delicate moment  

now spreading out

like a feast under a swaying willow?

Are there sorrows floating

in a sweet shadow pond, sometimes

mirrored on your changing faces?

Is laughter spilling forth

unwilling to be hushed

like children in a quiet church?

Are ordinariness and silence 

such treasures that no call to serve 

could surmount what you would do to keep them?

But mostly

Are you so moved by each other

that good is enough, that to leave as is

is an act of love so rare so beautiful that

God weeps?

Oh yes, God weeps, because you are perfect

and you are beautiful and endless, but only 

the wise, the blessed, the blemished know such desire

and willingly set her free

I believe you do.

Copyright © 2009 Kathleen Kimball-Baker