For Tashi and Sangay; on your wedding day.

May your cherished life bloom like a laurel tree,

Bountiful, beautiful and ceremoniously free,

May you learn from the heart,

“That hearts are not had as gift, but earned”,

From the beauty you approve,

For as long as you beat the looming “evil chances”,

“Assault and battery of the wind

Can never tear the linnet form the leaf”

It’s only the words,

“And words are all I have”

To wish you all the best,

That will last for the rest.

From a dear friend Kuenzang Thinley and family