Let the world outside
forget us for a while,
as we lose ourselves
in these moments together.
Even when we don’t speak,
the silence is charged
with magic and meaning.
Hearts have their own language,
and ours are always speaking.
— John Mark Green / Lose Ourselves
I'm happy that couples have been using this poem as part of their wedding celebrations, and I'm grateful to the wedding websites Love My Dress, The Knot, and One Fab Day for including My Undeniable Miracle in their suggested wedding readings. Here is the full-length version:
My Undeniable Miracle
I don't know why things happen the way they do— Why so much of our lives have been spent in heartache and disappointment. Wrong timing. The wrong people. Unhappy situations. Not being our best and truest selves.
What I do know is that in you, I have finally found all I never dared dream I could deserve or have—the kind of love that is rare. Being known in a way that touches the deepest parts of me. Accepted in a way that blows my mind.
In you, the love I have always desired to give now has a place to call home. I have been a skeptic, but you are my undeniable miracle. The questions don't matter anymore. We have finally found each other, and that is enough.
John Mark Green
(Shorter version in the image below)
What is love, if not two people saving each other from loneliness, and healing each other’s wounds?
- John Mark Green
A quote from my novelette She Had a Very Inconvenient Heart.
"...Your heart is my favorite destination."
From the book The Light You Need II: Romantic Love Poetry by Christy Ann Martine and John Mark Green
This line is from a poem in the book The Light You Need II: Romantic Love Poetry.
I also wrote a short story inspired by it, titled "If the Stars Should Ever Die," which can be found in my book of short fiction, She Had a Very Inconvenient Heart. In the story, lovers face the end of the world together when a mysterious force begins killing the stars and devouring all light in the universe.
The way our fingers intertwine feels so natural and right . . .
This little romantic love poem can be found in The Light You Need II: Romantic Love Poetry, which I co-authored with my wife, Christy Ann Martine.
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