There is Magic in the meeting of bodies
An alchemy that exists nowhere else:
The Virgin becomes a Queen
The lonely Bachelor becomes another's God
Two, and three, and more
Become One
And shackles of Day-to-Day life
Are thrown off in favor of hand-made cuffs
individual,
chosen,
right for the moment
Hard-forged rules bend,
or break,
or are tested and stand
And after,
a child becomes a man,
a man becomes a child,
a woman becomes a mother,
And Love embraces us all.
--SSM 06/23/02