“the rain is over and gone…” *

“the rain is over and gone…” *

You and I

have both weathered the storms.

In our separate arks

on distant oceans

we have listened to the lash of rain

and waited in the darkness

as the engulfing waters rose.

But now,

miraculously,

we have made landfall

on the same shore

and together,

wondering,

we step through the flotsam

in a bird-sung dawn.

  

*(Song 2.10-12)

For my husband, Philip, as we prepared to get married. We had this reading from the Song of Songs at our wedding.

Oct 30, 2003