When I Told Them Then About You

When I told them then about you
I said the time had finally come
to braid with silk the rough cloth of unhappiness.
How little did I understand the truth of what I said;
but how could I have known the strength
of this great cable that unites us now?

This should be a sculpture, not these words,
for me to show the power in this tensioned line
stretched between our hearts and minds,
alive with strain and snapping strands
but fashioned of such fabric and such steel,
the tendons and the ligatures of daily life
and our twin souls' foundations,
that though calamity can shake
no power known to me
can break this bond.

July 9 2009