Wedding Bands

In a fair and far off country, many centuries ago,

A kind young king was married to a princess he loved so.

Together they lived happily, until they learned one day

That duties were to for the king to journey far away.

 One night before he left as he walked through the palace grounds,

He tossed, into a moonlit pool, some pebbles he had found.

As the lovely ripples widened from where the little pebbles fell,

The king stood thinking quietly of the wife he loved so well.

Remembering, on the next day, the circles he had seen,

He had a gold ring made to fit the finger of a queen.

“There’s no ending or beginning to the circle of this band”,

The king said to his wife as he slipped it on her hand.

 “And that’s why I have chosen this golden ring to be

A pledge to you my love which will last through all eternity”.

 And so, since then, a golden ring has been the symbol of the beauty and devotion of the endlessness of love.