[Thespiritexpress] Let's Get Married!

[Roz]

Wow, Riantee, this is so gorgeous, meaningful and true!  Thanks for sharing this and being on the planet with us!

Much Love, Roz

Sent from my iPad

> On Mar 8, 2023, at 11:31 AM, Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> This poem says it all……such an honor to have received it then……..and again and again…..each time
> I read it, it enters more deeply. 
> It speaks to your own true knowing of what it takes to sustain, maintain and keep the sparks flying
> in the adventure of relationship.  Your poems are such inspiration, Riante!  You are indeed a treasure
> in our lives.  With so much love and aloha!  T
> 
>> On Mar 7, 2023, at 8:30 PM, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 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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