still not nervous

People keep asking me if I'm nervous...

not even the slightest bit

I'm anxious, ready to get to NC, ready to see family, ready to wear pretty new dresses and ready to marry my best friend. It's a good anxiety.

My Aunt Eleanor bought me a book last year when we announced our engagement called "With This Ring". I re-read it last night.
I am the farthest thing from a poet that ever existed, so I'll use someone else's poem.

"The Marriage"
You are holding up a ceiling
with both arms. It is very heavy,
but you must hold it up, or else
it will fall down on you. Your arms
are tired, terribly tired,
and, as the day goes on, it feels
as if either your arms or the ceiling
will soon collapse.

But then,
unexpectedly,
something wonderful happens:
Someone,
a man or a woman,
walks into the room
and holds their arms up
to the ceiling beside you.

So you finally get
to take down your arms.
You feel the relief of respite,
the blood flowing back
to your fingers and arms.
And when your partner's arms tire,
you hold up your own
to relieve him again.

And it can go on like this
for many years
without the house falling.

-Michael C. Blumenthal