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Poetry:There are two quite different questions that have occupied our minds since the dawn of time.
Mankind has asked itself: Why are we here? And down the ages, astronomists, geologists and physicists have tried to theorise an explanation.
Mankind asks itself: What is love? And down the ages, writers and poets, artists and musicians have all tried to furnish a description.
Who of us can deny that the issue of our origin has not risen to the top of our thoughts on some clear starry night only to be driven away by the hurly burly of life?
And from the time we become old enough to begin to recognise the stirrings of the deepest emotion we can feel, do we not try to understand why this one specific person makes our hearts sing?
The reason for our existence and the definition of love are the two most central themes of life, and questions we must each answer for ourselves.
Could it be that the two questions have the same answer? Does life exist because our purpose is love?
Why are we here - today? You and I are here this day to witness the public expression of love between two people.
We are here to celebrate, encourage and support Adam and Emily as they take this step in life’s journey. By being here we make our commitment to fostering and sustaining them in their lives together from this day forward.
And when in the years and years to come one of you may look at the other and ask: Why am I here? Then cast your mind back to this very day, when before the question was even formed, you spoke the answer.
Fingerprints
My daughter brought a poster home
from kindy the other day.
It was rolled up like a scroll;
she said: "It's for Mother's Day."
She handed it to me and off
she skipped to run and play.
I slowly rolled it out and looked
at what her gift might say.
The corners were a bit dogeared
the edges looking tattered
But my daughter had made it
That's all that really mattered.
Her simple poem offered me
a memory, with a smile:
"A final little fingerprint
from when I was a child."
Her tiny fingerprints were
fingerpainted on the page -
the same ones which she leaves around
our home at every age
Her little fingerprints are over
all my life, my heart;
and she'll still be leaving them
when she makes her own start.
The fingerprints she has left
are copies of my own;
and she too will leave her prints
on the seeds she's sown.
The cycle will continue
and the fingerprints be made
and the memories of Mother's Day
will wax and wane and fade.
SYNERGY
We are two, and yet
we are one
We are often apart, and yet
we are always together
We are a mating of
two souls into a
consummation of one spirit
We are entwined as the
cords of our lives
weave together
We are two minds, and yet
we are one understanding
We are two, and yet
we are one
SUMMON THE LIGHT
The night chases day
as the day succeeds night
Both are a part of
the way we have life
The shadows of midnight
seem far from the morn
Yet earth spins again
to bring you the dawn
The advent each day
is a lighting of love
A shadowless noon
while the sun stands above
The season of time
is balanced in days
The wheel of the world
gives each season its sway
The equinox comes
the sphere to re-turn
The solstice will share
what each one of us learns
So when the sun shines
forget not the night
And when the dark holds
summon the light