True Love Speaks.
There are many ways to love,
but love only endures when it moves like waves,
dancing like the tide, that ebbs and flows.
When love comes into sight
It liberates us all into life until
joined in loving commitment.
To know why the desert
burns with fever,
Is to understand its magic,
Just like the knowledge of real love,
It brings with it such serenity,
such peacefulness,
such fulfilment and such joy.
Those that truly love, have roots
that grow towards each other,
like the rare desert trees,
they find that they are one tree and not two.
How do we know true love speaks?
Seek for those trusting eyes,
cherish that kindness of heart,
nurture that precious love,
that perfect someone who
makes you smile, for it only
takes a smile to make a dark day
seem bright.
Sometimes people come into our lives
leaving their footprints on our hearts
and we are never the same again.
True love speaks in tender tones
and hears with gentle ear,
true love gives with open heart
and true love conquers fear.
True love makes no harsh demands,
it neither rules or binds
and true love holds with gentle hands
the heart that it entwines.
Two lives together bound by fate,
a love found in the sands of Dubai.
Two parts of a loving whole
two hearts a single soul combined.
So, as we gather here
on this very special day
our dear family and our dear friends
from so many corners of our beautiful world,
we come to celebrate this special love,
for we know love speaks.
There really is no place large enough
to contain so much joy,
so we smile and hold out our hands to the universe
and with all the love we possess
Wish our Leanne and Jo every happiness.
Leanne and Joes Wedding 1st April 2023
Photo courtesy of my desert friend Fadi Lydon.
copyright Susie Hemingway .
Some comments taken from social media.
what a beautiful poem- Jodie Mernagh April 2023
truly beautiful-Anne Manning
oh that must have been so lovely to hear at the wedding, as always wonderful words. Audrey Blincow.
lovely poem -Ali Voysey-Jenson.
how did you read that without collapsing in tears? Truly beautiful celebrating the love that you brought into the world for the next generation to wrap themselves in. Just beautiful Susie. esp for ex-Pat children. Deidre Hamilton Stewart.
so very beautiful Susie, Dianne West Garvey.
What a beautiful Wedding gift that will only grow more precious as the years progress, they find that they are one tree and not two. John A. Bayern.
Beautiful and very relevant- Gill Sims.
the photo fits the poem just beautifully – Gwen Macrae.
that is just gloriously beautiful Susie, what a wonderful gift for them.- Sian Williams.
