Train our love
hsiang January 30th, 2011
Train our love
that it may grow
slowly…deeply…steadily;
till our hearts will overflow
unrestrained and readily.
Discipline it, too,
dear God;
strength of steel
throughout the whole.
Teach us patience,
thoughtfulness,
tenderness, and
self-control.
Deepen it
throughout the years,
age and mellow it
until, time that finds us
old without,
within,
will find us
lovers still.
-Ruth Belle Graham, Never Let it End: Poems of a Lifelong Love