A real life love poem.
For Valentine’s Day.
For love. For a wedding. For my wedding.
For my beautiful wife. From almost 24 years ago.
She’s still the best. Happy Valentine’s Day, sweetie!
The best thing I ever did. How could we have ever known?
How Could We Have Ever Known?
How could we have ever known
that a smile would bring us to this moment?
Love has called us—a wondrous song—
sometimes weak and sometimes strong,
inevitably, inexorably to this moment.
How could we have ever known
that a kiss would bring us to this moment?
Gleeful giggle, enchanted glance,
serendipitous circumstance,
united bring us to this moment.
How could we have ever known
that a touch would bring us to this moment?
Improbable union, symmetrical hearts,
paradoxical whole, sympathetic parts,
together bring us to this moment.
Sound the trumpets!
Bang the drum!
All the Loves of all the Ages
urge us now to turn the pages
but remind us still from whence we come:
a smile, a kiss—a love begun;
two hands joined now are one.
Fields now fertile,
seeds now sown:
how could we have ever known?
© Daniel Mark Extrom 1989-2013. All rights reserved.
This picture poem can be etched for your wedding. We can put your names on it, and the date of the wedding. We can insert a second opening for an additional photograph for your rings. Be creative. It can be done. You can have it read in the ceremony, as we did. You can put the etched piece on display at the ceremony, or at your reception. A great and beautiful gift!
If you would like an etched version of this poem, email me at info@danielmarkpicturepoems.com.
