I was married September 7, 2013.
I, who have always wanted to be married, but never really thought I would be.
I am married to someone I always knew I should be married to, but not someone I always knew, or thought I ever would know.
I was, or we were, married by someone who understood how rare, how special, how...perfect this marriage, this meeting, was. Is. Someone who took the time to find a poem that was as touching as it was unexpected.
A poem that was as much a surprise as the woman I married. And perfect. As she is perfect.
Perfection is never expected, and thus, is always a surprise.
(Here is the poem Jill Malone chose for us.)
Today when persimmons ripen
Today when fox-kits come out of their den into snow
Today when the spotted egg releases its wren song
Today when the maple sets down its red leaves
Today when windows keep their promise to open
Today when fire keeps its promise to warm
Today when someone you love has died
or someone you never met has died
Today when someone you love has been born
or someone you will not meet has been born
Today when rain leaps to the waiting of roots in their dryness
Today when starlight bends to the roofs of the hungry and tired
Today when someone sits long inside his last sorrow
Today when someone steps into the heat of her first embrace
Today, let this light bless you
With these friends let it bless you
With snow-scent and lavender bless you
Let the vow of this day keep itself wildly and wholly
Spoken and silent, surprise you inside your ears
Sleeping and waking, unfold itself inside your eyes
Let its fierceness and tenderness hold you
Let its vastness be undisguised in all your days
~Jane Hirshfield "A Blessing for Wedding"
"With this ring, I thee wed; with this body, I thee worship."
