Mark & Marie

The glimmer of her ring dances in his eyes. Shades of love, truth, and faith paint the past with hopeful tears and even brighter years to come. Her pain finds comfort in his arms. His heart takes rest beneath her smile. With one step and one breath at a time, the lives of two become one. One for each other, intertwined with a strand of heaven. Holding on to the glow of a mysterious light. The light that shines from above, drawing them closer and closer together. Three become one. One soulful song sung with folded hands, graceful words, and passionate ears. Forever listening and forever heard. I try to sing along, try to join their dance. Their blood runs through my veins, flows through my heart, carries me through life. I'm nothing without them. They teach me how to live, how to love, how to leave all conditions behind, embracing the beauty of creation, the beauty that lives within us all.

So here's to thirty years and thirty more. May we all experience the same joy and happiness you've found. May we continue to encourage, as you encourage us. You're the reason why I've never felt completely alone, lost, or abandoned. I find myself in you, Mark and Marie, Mom and Dad. I love you more than you'll ever know and more than I could ever express. Here's to you, and here's to the blessing of life and sacrifice you offer to me, my brother, your family, and all of your friends. I hope and pray that I can offer the same to you.

Faces Frame the Light

Breathe into my lungs, a song. A soft and gentle word. A phrase that stays inside my heart, exhaling my every thought. Excitement beneath the sound. The whisper, the air around.

The silhouettes of souls searching for a sign. A sigh. A certain kind of confident shy, covering the eyes that pierce my mind. See straight through the distance, I need to try.

So keep me there. Keep me near, cause far is not so far at all, and faces frame the light that sleeps under the stars when clouds retain the flashes from the sky.

I'm safe here.

Safer than I've ever been before.