How can I Know so Surely?

How can I know so surely that I’ll love you

No matter what the future has in store?

Time is like a cave in which our torches

Show only the circumference of our minds.

But love is will far more than it is passion,

Though passion may at first sustain the will.

One chooses love the way one chooses faith

Because that is the way that heaven lies.

My love for you is vaster than the ocean,

More rich in loveliness than coral seas.

I would no more relinquish it than let go

Willingly the precious gift of life.