One and One

One and One Equals 55
and Counting
(in celebration of a long loved marriage)

The two are one
As surely as if
Once one, then split apart,
They'd been reunited -
A perfect match.

As if at first sight after separation 

They'd recognized a missing part  -

That she was a bone of his own bones

He flesh of her own flesh.

No, not the perfection of that storied pair

In their ancient Eden,

But close.

Thankfully, close.

                                                     -JoMae

                                                     8/4/15

The man said,

   “This is now bone of my bones

     and flesh of my flesh;

     she shall be called ‘woman,’

     for she was taken out of man.”

Genesis 2:23