[Thespiritexpress] Poemread at Mastery

[lee michel alley]

Beautifully written, Riantee!

Love,Lee

> On Dec 11, 2021, at 11:20 AM, joan burleigh via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
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> Great poem! 
> Love,
> Joan
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> On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 9:00 PM Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org <mailto: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 <mailto: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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