A Poem for Leah & Gyojin

by Roger B Rueda

Newly spliced, you, Leah & Gyojin, have turned into a loop,
full, related, and perpetual,
you are in one piece,  but boundless,
you are one and you will live as one,
but with infinite others
circled round you,
your nuptials are
neither start nor finish,
but a usual headway
of your tying the knot,
which finds you destined
but not delimited, all that was
dispersed brings forth and rolls,
tenderly, towards the joint pathway
of your yet to come,
on the underpinning
of past knowledge,
you build contemporary household,
an expanse of love,
a growing quarter
of fresh and timeworn,
radiating love, graceful
and magnificent taking,
you find all things mirrored back at you,
everything is offered for,
together you shape your ensuing life time,
it is all-encompassing,
convivial and unstinting,
the sumptuous well-being
of your self-made vastness,
helps you to live daringly and devoid of boundaries,
here you foster each other,
blossom, and bourgeon,
all annals are yours now,
set forth by you, prepared by you,
resilient footings incessantly suckle you,
everything is likely, you mellow, you build,
you share everlastingly now, and clasping hands,
you look up, get ready – there is still far to cross.

11 November 2012, General Luna Street, Iloilo City, Philippines