Band of Gold

 Nearing six months:

Days from the anniversary

Of six months of marriage

And though we’ve known each other

For many years before,

And though we’d lived together

For a time before,

Commitment now

Marriage now

The loving bind,

The loving tie that ties us,

Bonnie and me,

As something else,

As something other than the love

We shared as merely a man and a woman

The bind as the band upon her finger

Ties us in a way that merely

Being together,

That merely loving

Each the other,

That merely being close,

The band of gold

That says to her,

That says to me,

Committed

We are as one,

We are truly as one.

Our lives,

As she approaching sixty-nine

As I approaching seventy-nine,

For as she lies,

Her head upon a pillow

The lines erase from her face

And the glow of the beauty

Of the woman I see beneath me

Is not one of years but one of love.

The love we share has become a God given commitment

The love we share has become a committed choice.

Love for Bonnie,

Love for me

Is bound within the love of our commitment,

Within the commitment of our love

Within the commitment

of the band of gold upon her finger.

©January 22 , 2013 / Mark M. Lichterman