For Love's Own Sake

Below the face of time
A changed, eclipsing world
of letters from who I was before we met
comes drawing to a close
and sighs -
a formed anticipation of time-
a mimic of the world I'd come to know
takes me from this changing moment
and reminds me of the moments next
where you are more than light
more than sky and peaceful eloquence
more than beauty
or a thing called love
and in it I am more than this to you
we each, in dancing knowing ways
give love the slip
and go to something better
something love has never known
for if love knew the things we felt
it would become jealous
and perhaps stop giving of itself to others
so for love's own sake
and for the sake of those who are in love
we silently slip away together
into this new word we've formed
that means something more than anything
and nothing more than us.

3 July 2007
For my beautiful wife, before we were married.
11:38pm
I wrote this in front of her while we were video-chatting.