For Dorothy & Reuben
Our death and we are promised
Our lives a dowry
Where we give everything
To become nothing
Our kingdom’s past knowing
And before believing
Where now is always then
And never becoming
We reign in wind
Emperors of air
Our just deserts
Are ever becoming
Full into empty becomes full
All into aught becomes all
Captive into free
We are always becoming
All priors
All formers
All antecedents naught
There is only becoming
My beloved and I
My soulmate
We climax
In our becoming
I vow to you each living memory
And silent evening prayer
For nothing fulfills like nothing
And nothing costs as dear