The Bridge

I walk the bridge of hours from dawn till night

My heart beating so loud in joyous wonder

To know your love, that I can scarcely breathe;

But in the lonely darkness, with affright

I faintly hear, like ominous, distant thunder

The unseen ocean surging close beneath.

Our bridge so frail, eternity so vast!

When we must sink into the deep at last

Heart of my heart, will you still hold me fast?