For Ami on the Day We Share Our Sacred Vows

On this day
We are two breaths aligned
And the world will never exhale the same way again
It cannot
For we are wind
Light
Two souls no longer searching for the other part
It is sweet to the heart
This love
So pure it aches like a memory I dare not
Will not
Cannot ever forget
You, my gossamer dream,
Are the whisper in my night
The name on my tongue
The bright white joy that warms like a summer sun
Take my hand, my days, my dreams
Together we shall laugh and weep
Sing and sleep
Kiss what hours we have and never look back
Our life is ahead for as long as God wills
And I can scarcely speak
For want of you
I pledge my eyes to see your timid beauty
My ears to lean into your voice
My arms for holding when tears are heavy
And smiles come hard
We will walk, you and I,
Fingers entwined,
Each step a gift held out by the Almighty’s hand
Ever more
Ever one
From this day on I am yours
Body and soul.

Yours eternally, my love,
~ Edmund