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Audio and Video Music:
Love Letters.
By Aaron Kenny.
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On the brink of married life, you
wait with wonder:
The coming moment, mystic and mundane,
Brings law and love incongruously together
To form a bond both passionate and sane.
For now it has to be about the party:
Guests must be fed, clothes bought, proceedings planned;
But underneath there is abiding beauty,
Redeeming what the decencies demand.
Praised be the pillars on which we place our lives,
Standing more secure than else we might;
And praised be those in whom such sense survives,
Whose love becomes for all a source of light.
So do we celebrate, as the moment nears,
A love that counts its happiness in
years.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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