Hand in hand we held each other on a South Beach pier
The blue-green sea as dear as jade
As warm as our hands inside one another
The blue-green sea washed the beach below us
The blue sky washed the air we breathed
There we were, awash in hope
That the stranger whose hand we held
Was becoming less strange, like the world
We thought we knew
We did not know, not then,
What our futures held
How you would cast your heart into faith
Into a dream of love
How I would change everything
In the room I called my life
All we knew that day was in our hands
A blend of fingers, as warm as the sun
Rising in the distance where love,
We hoped, began.