[Thespiritexpress] Fwd: Let's Get Married!

[Riantee Rand]

The poem I wrote for Toni and Ron when they were about to get married.
> 
> Holy Marriage – After Annie Lclerc
>  
> For our most ancient dream to come alive
> let’s not flee from commitment
> but have the heart to face it
> for it is the true quest of life
> its highest challenge and accomplishment.
> Refusing to take a vow is not freedom;
> free are those who having faced the nature of love
> its chasms, empty passageways,
> its triumphs and elations without any illusion,
> embark on the ocean,
> determined to live the adventure at all cost,
> refusing neither the victories
> nor the wreckages,
> ready to lose everything they own
> and willing to gain in the end what’s invaluable,
> the kept promise,
> the oath honored without deceit
> in the meeting of two lives.
>  
> There is a time for every season.
> The inebriation of uncommitted ways
> is fun to experience for a while and it should be,
> but when the time for it has passed, it become lifeless.
> The real tragedy for us would be
> not to attempt the impossible,
> to always remain within our own limits.
> In marriage we constantly show each other those limits,
> test them,
> finding each other in our most hidden places,
> bringing out the secret and shadowy parts
> of one another.
>  
> In each true meeting something unforeseen is present.
> Every time we love we recreate completion,
> and save our world from the absurd.
> Love will be reborn through you
> because it has only one goal, itself:
> once more, through you, it gains existence.
> You are called to love and to help,
> so that love and service
> can be of this world.
>  
> What makes marriage so illuminating
> is that it’s one of the relationships
> that truly puts us to work.
> Obstinate, undeterred from its purpose,
> marriage is the pursuit through others
> of our own truth,
> our authentic voice.
>  
> In the intimacy of bodies and souls
> we access the reality of the lover.
> We mix our breaths, our juices
> when sharing our days and nights,
> and in this way are entrusted to each other.
>  
> There are such things as laws of being.
> They decree the planetary course,
> orchestrate the music of the spheres,
> they arrange the corolla around the vibrant heart of the flower,
> they give a pulse to the sap
> that rises from the roots into the tree,
> they create, for the child, a caring environment in its mother’s womb.
> These same laws bind the beloved
> to one another,
> they breathe within them.
> Once they have immersed themselves
> in the glow of sacredness,
> this in spite of their squabbles, of their severances,
> of whatever they say, think or do,
> these laws live within them.
>  
> Our most ancient dream comes alive:
> shared life, share food and drink
> and which each taste, with each sip,
> a certainty: I am loved.
> Let us shout with this oldest of dream,
> let us weep and laugh with it,
> tremble with it,
> let us dance and embrace it
> this ancient dream:
> to be loved without any motive.
> even undeserving,
> to be loved with no condition, no merit.
> To be loved,
> easy as that.

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