Written in the Bathroom of a Wedding Reception for a Couple I Didn't Know Very Well
And there are still strange and beautiful things
There are still people to meet, and to love
And to see blooming, magnolias opening
There are still places to be, to see
To breathe the air of those places will fill you with new life
As the breath of God into clay
And love is real
More real than any invention of man
More real than death, more real than the rot that will eat our corpse
More real than the disease that will kill us, love is above time
Piercing through it, holding every moment you see her face firm in the racing river
Saying, "This will stay,
"This will stay."