Beginning

For Dana from Judy

May 24, 2009

Did we begin one year ago with vows and promises

spoken in a circle of love? Or months before

beneath a star-lit sky with you on bended knee

in snowy ground? Or during long days of wondering,

of joy together and heartache apart? Or in thousands of words

sent and received from city apartment to seaside cottage?

Or in the long unknowing, with each of us awaiting sweet release

into the pink dawn of this new day, this gentle nestling,

one into the other, this sudden awakening in a darkened room

to hear tidal waters rushing beneath our anniversary bed?

Perhaps, there was no beginning.

Perhaps, we have carried each other’s heart within our own

for as long as we have dared to believe in this thing called love.