Poem: Love Makes Us One

As read to my wife Alexandra on our wedding day, September 7, 2013.

I promise you a universe of love

I don’t know how this universe started, by a big bang or creator,

But i know our love has the power to expand it.

I promise you this universe will be wondrous

Humming from the revolving suns and shooting stars

(and the occasional black holes)

And a little immaculate planet that we’ll call home.

I promise you there will be room in this universe

for all the people we love, and we can always make room

for those to come.

I promise you this power to build our universe

does not demand we be perfect

but comes from our ability to be ever more loving

to each other and ourselves

I promise you we can bask in our universe

and listen to the reverberating hum eternally resounding:

“Love makes us one.”