[Thespiritexpress] Let's Get Married!

[dennis jecmen]

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	Riantee…. the depth and range of what you express is truly amazing.
				Dennis

> On May 29, 2023, at 10:17 AM, dennis jecmen via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
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>> On Mar 8, 2023, at 11:31 AM, Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org <mailto: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 <mailto: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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