a ring, a promise, a commitment

on an Acadian mountain

 

september, 1985

me in white, you in black

 

walked hand in hand

up altar steps

to vow a lifetime

together

 

never more sure of 

joining my life to yours

never more sure

that my life belonged besides yours 

 

you hold the profoundest love 

I've ever known

your life lived

in service to family and others

 

You, the forever giver —

 

always arms of comfort

always words of strength

in need

always acts of quiet grace

Always there,

supportive, steady

encouraged me to grow fully  into me

accepting each stage

 

through seasons that tested

and years that softened

 

building a life

not in grand gestures

but in the everyday—

shared glances, worn routines,

the comfort of knowing

 

time traced its lines upon us

yet never dimmed

the quiet certainty

of us

 

— after all the becoming,

all the weathering—

 

I would walk that mountain again

take your hand again

speak those vows again

 

certain, as I was then,

that my life

was meant beside yours.

Originally written: Unknown, 3/28/2026