Hymeneal for Millie and Peter - James N. Markels
A life unchallenged
Is already lost –
A love unburdened
Waits to evaporate.
With a simple vow –
A crystalline moment of honesty –
We become shepherds to
The ravenous wolves of the world.
Each day I shall have no fear
As we are armed with
The Greatest Blessing.
Bring us the burning of life
so we may soothe
it.
Bring us the emptiness of loss
so we may fill it.
Bring us every hunger
so we may feed it.
Bring us the broken,
The fear,
The sin,
And the end,
So we may triumph over all.