Las Bodas de Plata

For Leah Canete Antonio-Agcaoili

This is silver, shining,

shining through.

It is solid, metal of words,

living, true, forever be.

Bind it is, this,

eternal, timeless

and in the energy

of our circle

ringing us, we celebrate

this rare gift and grace

this love we have, endless

as endless can be.

It is this anniversary

we await

and this memory

we make

hold unto, now,

and more so.

We live through it,

this love.

In the freedom we have

for the love we have,

committing us boundlessly

tying us so

in the living laughter

of children, family, friends,

we come, so here we come

unto another land,

familiar and forgiving,

this sacred territory

of loving

and loving more

and more.

We come unto this country

of perpetual prayer

and from here

soar high in the heavens

where love, indeed, is real.

A Solver Agcaoili

Recited, Dec 26/09, at a las bodas de plata ceremony

Luyong Restaurant, Concepcion, Marikina