Christmas Eve

Though for a space we may be many leagues apart,
Worlds separated by the vastness of the sea,
Cold and heartless in its dark majestic beauty,
From that first day when you offered to me your heart,
Love's present, binding your life to mine eternally,
Graciously given, not from a sense of duty,
A pledge that from my side you would no more depart.
Not a day has passed since then that I have not known
The sweet comfort of your warm and tender embrace.
On this Christmas Eve, sitting alone in this place,
I know that we are one, together on a throne
Of golden light, where you are queen and I am king,
True lovers, for all eternity together bound
In a marriage made in heaven, as all around
Sounds of angelic voices make the welkin ring.