ANNIVERSARY

 

I will walk with you hand in hand

Through darkness and delight –

When the wild sea’s waves crash over us,

When the shores gleam clear in sight.

 

I will walk with you when the bells

Toll out their long despair;

When the birds, like angel-songs,

Chime softly in the air.

 

I will walk with you to laugh

At the silliness of life;

And when grief beclouds our view

I will hold you through the strife.

 

I will walk with you where maps fail

And we do not know the way,

When the platitudes fall down

And we stumble as we pray.

 

I will walk with you and declare

That the promises will hold:

For the One who wrote our days

Holds our tale already told.

 

I will walk with you when peace,

Light as a summer dawn,

Bathes us in lovely light,

Mends what our hands have torn.

 

I will walk with you to the end,

When our path climbs from our sight,

And my heart will hold you still

Till there is no more night.