Prayer for Marriage

Prayer for a Marriage

by Steve Scafidi

When we are old one night and the moon

arcs over the house like an antique

China saucer and the teacup sun

follows somewhere far behind

I hope the stars deepen to a shine

so bright you could read by it

if you liked and the sadness

we will have known go away

for awhile – in this hour or two

before sleep – and that we kiss

standing in the kitchen not fighting

gravity so much as embodying

its sweet force, and I hope we kiss

like we do today knowing so much

good is said in this primitive tongue

from the wild first surprising ones

to the lower dizzy ten thousand

infinitely slower ones—and I hope

while we stand there in the kitchen

making tea and kissing, the whistle

of the teapot wakes the neighbors.

~

Mike and I included this poem in our wedding programs. I still love to read it from time to time. I love how you have to read it in one breath for it to make sense. I love its urgency and its hope.  That’s what I wanted my marriage to be and what I strive to make it.

Here’s to a lifetime of stolen kisses.

Love, e