Poems: Wedding Remarks

Wedding Remarks

Thank you for the favor of your presence,

The prayers prayed, spells cast

Upon this enchanted day

For a daughter and her husband

Christening this their journey

Today’s new embarkation

Eagle’s flight, time to soar the heights

We have a hope though we

Truly know not where

Or what will truly be

Thresholds await

We are fortunate,

You all have made it so

It is friends and family

How often a hard journey

Of sweat, of blood, and of tears

For many a hard going it has been

The adult curse of learning

How unfair it often is

Now needing a time for something special

A moment to share

A moment to dare

A moment to care

We miss heart-felt those well-beloved

Absent from this gathering

They who would have loved the music

They who showed us how to dance

Regardless the tune

Though they loved the slow dance best

And they who must be elsewhere

To make a new life and dare a chance

Absent in location only

Still surrounded by our affection

Might new beginnings be created

For them, by them, with them.  

Near the Susquehanna

We gather to break bread

Holding each other in our arms

Charge a glass for a sincere toast

We cherish what rivers we are

Wider deeper, stronger, and richer for all

The tributary others that flow to become us

An everyday reason to keep on keeping on

We flow on, we flow on

How appreciative we are

Paths together, rarely easy

Since when easy?

Oft feeling helpless

Discovering not entirely so

Too human to fix it all

Unable to change the circumstance

Still by grace made more human

Changing how we meet the day

The inward inner we

Oft in loss

Oft in grief

Oft in shared sorrow

Discovering what real love is