POEM - In The Beginning

In The Beginning

By Scott L. Vanatter, January 1, 2015 (Poem for our 39th wedding anniversary, January 2, 2015)

I

Long ago now
We saw enough
We knew enough
Then, waking up

Slumbering
No longer

Easily, actively we choose
One another

II

The idea
Planted, buried
Deep in our hearts
Clear in our minds
We journey
Through life together

An adventure

III

Encountering
A sometimes lonely world

A sometimes dreary world
We wend our way as beloved companions
Enjoying a lively shared
Endeavor

Engaging . . .

Innocence and awareness
Wonders and puzzles

Disappointments
Accomplishments

Darkness and light
Dim shades gray and brilliant gradations of white

Pleasure and pain
Loss and gain

Sickness
Sorrow
Sadness
And gladness

Heights
Depths

And breadths

In the clamor and commotion
Shadows cower

Darknesses flee
Peace and tranquility
Calmness and serenity
In you and me

Heavenly visions and ecstasies
Overwhelm the hazy cloud of earthly trials

Initial inklings have become
Fully-developed sight

Then wisdom

Peering past veils of forgetfulness
Seeing the future
Briefly
Partially

Now remembering
Covenants
Relations
And identity

Gazing into heaven – if only for a few moments
We see more

We know more

Now aware
Now awakened to
Our identity

Our purpose
Our potential
Our selves
Our love
Our family

Drawn upward and filled
With light from within
And love from above

Being, becoming
Yearning, learning
Living, loving

Growing
Experiencing
Forever

Never better
Ever-centered
Measured as dear treasure
We surrender to one another
As One

Still
We’ve only just begun
To Live

Forever and ever and ever

Ever Together
As One

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Comments

Unknown said…

Great one.

January 03, 2015

Unknown said…

Just read it again. It is really good. You captured you guys perfectly.

April 03, 2015

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