Mansion

For those looking for a wedding poem, here's one for your reading pleasure. To the one who inspired a great chunk of it, you know yourself. I get nostalgic every time I read it.


Mansion

I did not have the words to start this piece. I didn't
I did not because you leave me speechless. And out of the abundance of the heart
The mouth speaks. So my lack of words is a sign of an empty heart
Empty because it is poured out to you and nothing’s left except a void
A void into which only you can pour
Pour your heart
This love condition requires an open heart surgery but we don’t need a theater
That’s for actors
Just realness, honesty, commitment, sacrifice and the heart expert…
Who can search its depths and fill it with love unconditional…
I know that what I feel for you has been divinely placed, not temporal
Not to change with age and time
Not to be dependent on looks or wealth
Not to be swayed by mood or weather
But to weather the storm, grow stronger, outlast time
That even if we lost everything, we’d still have love left. And love is everything

He who finds a wife finds a good thing but only God can put her in your path
Took me disappointments to realize this
Then I asked Him to fashion for me the one He’d
Cut according to my size
Then came you…
The precious garment that has covered the nakedness of my singlehood
The wife material in this material world
Tailor-made according to His will for me
My heart’s desires without fabrication,
The one who fits me, the one I’m fit for
With you, I’d gladly tie the knot
You are the chain stitch that has hemmed my running ends, I am no longer unfinished
You turned out to be the one suited for me
And as you walk down that aisle, like the runway
I know you are the next top model, beauty on all levels
Yes, on all levels

Your skin kissed by the sun
Two bright stars shine beneath your forehead
Your wink is the twinkle of an eye
Your smile like the crescent moon on a cloudless night sky
The sky that your shoes scrape when you’re at your lowest
You are my heaven on earth
And I pray that I have my mansion in you

…my mansion is for you

I am the man shown for you.