[Thespiritexpress] Poemread at Mastery

[joan burleigh]

Great poem!
Love,
Joan

On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 9:00 PM Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress <
thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:

> Thank you Riante…….again and again……..so beautiful…..needs to be read at
> every wedding!
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> On Dec 9, 2021, at 4:59 PM, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <
> thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
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> Holy Marriage – To Toni and Ron
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> Let’s not,
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> in the name of freedom,
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> flee from commitment
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> but dare it
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> for it is the true quest of life
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> its highest challenge and accomplishment.
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> Free are those who having faced the nature of love
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> its chasms, empty passageways,
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> its triumphs and elations
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> without any illusion,
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> embark on the ocean,
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> determined to live the adventure
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> at all cost,
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> refusing neither the victories
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> nor the wreckages,
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> ready to lose everything they own
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> and willing to gain in the end
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> what’s invaluable,
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> the kept promise,
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> the oath honored without deceit
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> in the meeting of two lives.
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> The tragedy would be not to attempt the impossible,
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> to always remain within our own limits.
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> In marriage we constantly show each other those limits,
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> finding one another in our most hidden places,
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> bringing out the secret and shadowy parts
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> of each other.
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> Every time we love we save our world from the absurd.
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> It is one of the relationships that truly puts us to work
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> for it is the pursuit through another
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> of our own truth, our authentic voice.
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> Love has only one goal, itself:
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> we are invited to love and serve,
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> so that love and service
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> can be of this world.
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> In the intimacy of bodies and souls
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> shared nights and shared days
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> we access the truth of the beloved,
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> and when we mix our breaths, our juices
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> we are delivered to each other.
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> The laws of being do exist that bind the lovers
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> to one another;
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> they fulfill our most ancient dream
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> shared life, share food and drink
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> and which each sip, with each bite,
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> a certainty: I am loved.
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> Let us shout with this oldest of dream,
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> let us weep and laugh with it,
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> tremble with it,
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> let us dance and embrace it
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> this ancient dream:
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> to be loved without any reason.
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> to be loved with no condition, no merit.
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> To be loved,
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> just like that.
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