Please give me suggestions for the reading

We would like to include a reading as part of our ceremony. However, we do not want anything from the bible or religious.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Perhaps a nice poem?

I'm using this from the Velveteen Rabbit. I always loved that story growing up and I bought a huge wooden plaque of the saying that I hung in our spare bedroom. It may not work for everyone, but it's a really sweet seniment for someone who isn't religious, and it has a lot of meaning for me, since I love the story so much:

From 'The Velveteen Rabbit' by Margery Williams

'What is REAL?' asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. 'Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?'

'Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When someone loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.'

'Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit.

'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. 'When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.'

'Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,' he asked, 'or bit by bit?'

'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.'