LIGHTS AND PERFECTIONS

As you travel on storms of mist and fear,
Within the wooden ark of your clean lives
A window shines, some say a precious stone,
A wedding gift of vision for your home.
The integrated brightness of this hope
Carries your eyes to covenant clouds above
Mount Zion, where the promise of the Lord
Bends double prisms to the waiting world.

Now under the rainbows, as man and wife,
Between the mirrors of one life, you kneel
To face each other like gold cherubim
Whose wings just meet over the mercy seat,
And touch over the testimony ark,
And kiss over the altar whose corners
Will form the compass of the earth, the lands
Where you will sing and dwell, the kingdom come
Where you will sail on seas of glass and fire
To know your God, the Urim and Thummim
Of all your faith and love and pure desire.

(Provo, Utah, August 1980)