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