I like marriage. The idea.
If we had no language we'd have nothing.
It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds.
Much handled things are always soft(27).
The theme you choose may change or simply elude you, but being your own story means you can always choose the tone. It also means that you can invent the language to say who are you and what you mean.
My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not vagrants - hanging from trees as a child was traumatic for him.