who's always reaching, kissing, enjoying me.
Filling me with joy, and likewise anger.
There's this person, my love for whom
I can't explain. He came upon me suddenly.
He came and would not leave.
My love showed me what never leaving felt like. What clinging tight to love might bring.
My love is now my husband,
here to stay, forever holding, cherishing,
fighting for me.
My husband, one I never thought would come,
happened on me suddenly, and here he will stay.
"Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unyeilding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away." (Song of Songs 8:6-7)
I wrote this poem for my husband when we wed...it's rough, and so were we. I think we are a testament to what tenacity in a marriage can bring.
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