With This Ring I Thee Wed

It can be none other than the delicately
exquisite refractive beauty of pure
light we view through the prisms of
that rarest of minerals, valued and
sought after, held in such inestimable
esteem, worn with pride, the envy of
those awaiting their own opportunity
to hold and to have this universal
symbol of evanescent delight presaging
the virtue of human devotion. In its
presence we experience the visceral
certainty of proximity to eternity in
recognition of its atomic density and
ancient origins at the brink of time
so little wonder it is symbolic of the
primordial event of cataclysmic upheaval
introducing all that exists, its process
heaving the presence of energy into
the vast desolation of emptiness that
was space absent of place and being.
Fitting that diamonds are visualized as
the medium by which the covenant of
marriage is sealed, redolent of time and
space, place and immortal light to guide
us through the labyrinth of shared life.