The wedding ring

 What purpose does a wedding ring serve?

Is it merely a symbol to be worn?

Is it just a piece of jewellery to adorn?

Our already over-loaded fingers

Is there some purpose, some warning?

Cried out into life's yawning...chasm...

Does it say: "I am married, stay away?"

Does it tell you that I am no longer free?

Does it decry some other status?

Some symbol to explain all about us?

Is it necessary to so boldly display it?

Is it there to tell the world of our choice?

Of our decision to embark upon a joining

Together of everything that we were

To create a new estate...a new company

A new, better life for you and me

Is it absolutely necessary?

Can one simply act a different way?

Can we simply show by behaviour?

By thoughts...by words and actions

That we are changed...

That we have chosen to be....

Different...from what we used to be...

It is supposed to be the symbol

Of a decided unity, a secure state

Of matrimony...upholding God's laws

Showing the beauty of God's plans

For the human race

Begun in antiquity...