Here's to the Young Couple

Here's to the young couple
so foolishly in love,
separate in their churches but
determined in their hearts.
Such simple children, they said; how long
can such a union last? But look:
as if their hearts are amber, still,
long decades and a life along,
past children of their own
and all the accidents and happiness
that we are bound to, see
the couple even now and ever
proof against the end:
twin souls unchanging, young,
and foolishly in love.

In memory of Mary Himelrick

October 22 2009