Because my love is a choice.

Because my love is a choice,
something I have consecrated myself to,
I carry you in me like a body to the grave,
certain, still, undeterred,
in a casket of unutterable promises.

Your body is a love fully formed, a life lived together.
Sometime, years from now, it has already happened.
Our children are grown.

Someday, we will know all we were made for.
Someday.