On Your Wedding Day

For Heather & JoshWayward memories fade to make room for a newAwake, you float through butterflies to a familiar rhythmOf curious bliss that is nuzzled against such oldWonderment, you knew as a child to anticipate magicThat heightens your senses and codifies a borrowedResolve, you pine for the future but dance in the momentOf yearning blown softly from your lips towards the blueAbyss, you swim in the endless depths of hope.Springs mist your eyes towards the eternity that vowsPatience, you swoon past the clutter to lock in a glanceAs fleeting as rainbows but firm as a bell ringsTruth, you reach for the heavens that you find in a touchOf fingers locked swiftly like wave crests in unityFall, in love you climb steadily up a smile whose reachPulls you closer towards oceans of safe passage to kissForever, you bask in the renewing solidarity of trust.Flashes clap harmony while your thumping heart picturesSanctity, you waltz round roast portions while lifting a glassTo feather tickled bubbles cajoling laughter while it toastsDevotion, you settle in silence as sugar conducts blessingsThat trap an embrace in a shared ritual's duet frostingFaith, you soak into chorus hummed gently for dreamsTo line up before you as felicitations nudge at your farewellGaze, you turn and stroll on the generous warmth of joy.Written July 2012 in San Antonio, Texas