Wedding Reading, Australian writer

[maininjapan]

Our wedding is in May in Queensland (beach wedding). We currently live overseas, but going back for the wedding and would like to use a reading or poem by an Australian writer in the ceremony. We would like something that reflects on the importance of respect for others or about not taking loved ones for granted. We currently live in Japan and recent events make you realize how easily everything can be taken away. In saying that, some of the best choices come from things you never considered so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!

[Delta40]

I thought of this since you mentioned the recent tragedy in Japan

Thought is Surrounded by a Halo - Gwen Harwood.

Show me the order of the world,
the hard-edge light of this-is-so
prior to all experience
and common to both world and thought,
no model, but the truth itself.

Language is not a perfect game,
and if it were, how could we play?
The world's more than the sum of things
like moon, sky, centre, body, bed,
as all the singing masters know.

Picture two lovers side by side
who sleep and dream and wake to hold
the real and imagined world
body by body, word by word
in the wild halo of their thought.