Love Devotion And Surrender Poem by Kevin Patrick Brown

It began with a consecration on the alter of a creaking bed
Together we embraced each other, and at the same time we grasped the glory of change
All the changes that our embrace promised, the promises we made together
And we enfolded our lives together on a podium of surrender

The child yet unborn was blessed with gratitude and our yearning for renewal
And we thought to abandon the past, to renounce our histories
and in exchange to find where a future could flow, a river of devotion
We would flee the past and yield to the times to yet be discovered

His coming was to absolve us of a grinding time of misfortunes and torment
His tiny heart made a rhythm of fabulous promises, a delivery of salvation
We pinned our flags of faith on this miracle of our sudden passion
and we used that passion to build a wondrous tower of love and reverence

When our gift was finally delivered, we set sail on seas of mystery
We surrendered the tiller of our ship of grace to a river of fidelity
We surrendered our very selves to the dedication of sanctity, to love
But when the dark fog came, as it always would, we would keep our bond of faith

Our promise to him: Love, Devotion and Surrender