Diamond Wedding

Diamond Wedding

Andrew Motion

Love found a voice and spoke two names aloud -
two private names, though breezed through public air -
and joined them in a life where duty spoke
in languages their tenderness could share,

A life remote from ours because it asked
each day, each action to be kept in view,
and yet familiar in the trust it placed
in human hearts, in hearts remaining true.

The years stacked up and as their weight increased
they pressed the stone of time to diamond,
immortal-mortal in its brilliant strength,
a jewel of earth where lightnings correspond.

Now every facet holds a picture-glimpse;
In some, the family faces and the chance
for ordinary talk and what-comes-next;
in others, shows of pomp and circumstance.

And here, today, the diamond proves itself
as something of our own yet not our
own -
a blaze of trust, the oneness made of two;
the ornament and lodestar of the crown.

This is the poem read by Dame Judi Dench for Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh's 60th Wedding Anniversary. Sixty years... whoa!

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I thinking of changing my blog template and name again because I'm bored. I just don't want to go home yet. We'll see.

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I went to Libis today and got my clearance almost done. I need to go back either tomorrow or Thursday to get the final sigs. It's funny how different the world of Libis and the world of UST can be. I feel like I have split lives. Hmm... Not in the mood to be too deep. Later na lang.