MARRIAGE by Claire Adriance

Your taking a walk
Down a path of life
A path that only
You two can take.
A way
Winding through a tangle
Of joys and dreams...
Expecting that each door
Will open into
A brilliance of happiness.
But happiness
Is not happened upon
My dears:
It is an overflowing stream.
Of little thoughtful things:
The everyday love wrought out
In the ordinary needful deeds.
The plants at the edge of life's flow
Will be nourished each day
By your prayers.
Saturated by His spirit.
There will be flowers and fruit.
In abundance:
All cultivated by your
Shared, unselfish and devoted love.