......a marriage holds.....

A marriage holds enough of time
to bring down all the walls      
that hold me in or hold you out      
from what we want most of all. 

A marriage holds enough of space 
to let us blindly run    

crashing smashing all our fears

‘till circling fences round us come.  

        

A marriage holds enough of hope 

to feel the other near     

until by grace we find the place  
where happiness can grow.