Ahava:
This is to love you,
to join hands, heart and body
now as I never have
with another person,
to believe in you with
the faith that once I had
for stars and miracles
of childhood,
not for the man and
woman I scarcely dreamt could come together
as we did when the
man first played the music of the night
moving through his
eyes and voice,
he taught her they
belonged in the sky,
and the woman first
gave him herself
to fill his home with
the evening gentleness,
friendship golden with
laughter and wisdom.
Now, all my dreams
are for you, and yours for me.
Ahava:
this is to cherish
you, to speak with all of myself
and tell you that within
the time we have spent together
I have grown into you
as sunlight into flowers,
you have nourished
me and I you,
in your brilliance
I have delighted.
In my caring I have
watched you succeed,
as only someone can
whose gifts, while wondrous,
when imbued with love,
become showers of light,
most beautiful to the
one who shares them in a private,
joyful way the world
does not know
Though these wondrous
times will not always be,
to cherish you means
you have my respect.
I cannot imagine growing,
shining without you.
Ahava,
this is to desire you,
to come together with whole hearts,
eternally rediscovering
the beauty of us.
For the man, to want
her
means that her silken
face becomes his universe
as it turns to him,
laughs and kisses him,
and he sends roses
to her to celebrate that day
that he pledges to
touch her only.
For the woman, to hold
and need him
means that his arms
complete hers,
his luminous eyes drown
in her own, within his embrace,
a promise fulfilled,
she in her giving will keep him forever
You and I, desiring,
rejoice in the wonder.
Ahava:
this is to marry you
in this moment as I did
in my soul the hour
we met,
our pasts belonging
to each other,
our futures written
by every loving word,
we stand united, endeared
in our bond which hugs us close
as fingers twined to
seal what we are, lover and beloved,
who you have always
been to me,
the magical woman who
completes me,
the wonderful man who
fills my life,
the one who will dwell
with me forever.
I am of you, you are
of me. I love you.
