Christian love verse

Poetry is the language of love and the preferred way of the Bible (over 70 percent of it) Yet, poetry is ignored in the church. Why? Today, I am married for nine years. I joy the tradition of the psalmists and want to share a poem written to my wife, Lace. 

Ode to Love Expressed in almost a decade.

 

Yes, 

the day moves towards 

the afternoon. The rain comes 

down in a light sprinkle 

that makes the grass green 

and ready to mow once more. 

 

Our son has grown larger 

and speaks as boy who 

no longer is a baby, 

but a boy none the less. Messy

rooms and and toys 

on the floor. We build

the models together 

as three in a family. 

You cook and clean,

I work early. Today,

we will remember 

A long ago “I

 

do.” You remember 

the time we floated 

the Caribbean with 

the smile of Moses’s Goat.

As we pray, love and live 

together, I return to your

body suspended in seawater

as sky arose in the summer

day with the blue which matched

your eyes. Seeing the bride 

of our pictures nine years ago,

I do remember the time.

 

I do the chores and you

Cook our dinner. Time moves

And the memories become

Driftwood under the sunset.

History pinches time

like a toddler breaking

An hourglass. Sand bleeding

Onto the kitchen floor. 

 

And yet

we remain on the waves

of unknown ocean, bobbing

to the stillness of our day.