For Mary Helen

The Light That Falls

When my beloved's face is aglow with love,

Speechless I feel her soul conjoin with mine,

For ours is a sanctioned gift from worlds above

This painful earthly realm our lives confine,

For we have held communion with the trees

And flowers known, their secret essence shared,

Marvelled at such miracles as these,

Two spirits in the net of God ensnared.

Slowly as the days turn into years

We are grown closer still, divinity

Envelops all the hours, a Presence nears

That fills us with divine felicity.

Enfolded by Grace no sorrow's tear survives

The light that falls on our enamoured lives.