As they watch the Royal Wedding today and hear again, beneath the beautiful numinous arches of Westminster Abbey the cadences of the marriage vows, couples might be prompted to renew their own vows to one another. If so here is a sonnets about doing just that. The words in italics are taken directly from the wedding service
So, open up the treasure-casket, love,
The treasure is still there, the hidden things
That love contains. Old words like wedding rings
Surround their mysteries. They live and move
As breath renews them, burnished as the gold
Around our fingers, glowing as we make
The vows that make us new again: I take,
Protect and comfort, cherish, have and hold.
The same old words that cannot stay the same,
For they have grown, as we have, more than old.
They change and deepen like all things that live,
They compass more and still have more to give:
All that I have is yours, All that I am
I give again with all I will become.