My DSis has asked me to help find poem for my nephew to read at his sister's civil wedding. The mission is to find something in the third person, with a proper rhyme scheme, that is not cheesy, religious or desperately cliched. So I thought MNetters were the obvious place to start. Any ideas? And thank you .
I love this if you wanted something a bit more serious :- Ann Gray Love Listen
Let's love, listen, take time when time is all we have. Let's be unafraid to be kind, learn to disregard the bad if the good outweighs it daily. Let's make a gift of silence, the day's hushing into dark, and when we hold each other let's always be astonished we are where we want to be. Let's hope to age together, but if we can't, let's promise now to remember how we shone when we were at our best, when we were most ourselves
I cannot promise you a life of sunshine; I cannot promise riches, wealth, or gold; I cannot promise you an easy pathway That leads away from change or growing old.
But I can promise all my heart's devotion; A smile to chase away your tears of sorrow; A love that's ever true and ever growing; A hand to hold in yours through each tomorrow.
HAD I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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sorry!