Anniversary

Let me place this ring of stars

On the finger of your soul.

Let me show you the moon tonight,

Soft in its silver promise.

Let us laugh together

With the little lapping waves

Rejoicing in our smallness.

Let us trace the path of our years across the sky

Through light and darkness,

The relentless pull of entropy,

And the pinpricks that unsettle.

Let us refuse to be afraid.

Let us ache for the loneliness

That is part of all things human,

Then reach out and touch

Until the divisive galaxies are nothing,

Nothing more,

Than the cobblestones our love must walk across.

Let us taste our names again

In each other’s mouths

Remembering

The centuries of kindness

That have woven us together.

Because our hope

Has always been

So far beyond ourselves.