Lovelier Than This?

I asked of God
One long days eve,
Why we, who are both brought
From distance great
Or circumstances fraught
To find each other
Whole worlds apart?
Why we two people
Through love wrought
Bind to each other,
And whose meeting brought
Omens strange
And proceeded was by
Signs from heaven.

And God, with seeming smile
Whispered gently to me
That creating together
The sense of being loved,
And of being loving,
Was an end in itself.
Was there anything, he asked,
Lovelier than this?

Copyright ©2006 Tony Crisp