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A Marriage Poem
Love is a look, a smile, brief as an instant,
long as eternity, a spark engendered by a
reaching out, a touch of hands, an intuition
that knows how to heal a hurt, and how to build a world.
For love's sake only, cherishing each other,
lovers move freely within a circle, that
defines their being, shapes what they become,
and thus they are fulfilled each in the other.
When love speaks in feeling,
love responds in instant recognition,
in embrace and letting go, always in the certainty of renewal.
Shared sorrows, disappointments only serve to strengthen love.
Let this be a pledge of love's safekeeping,
that in sleep, lovers dream each other's self,
and when they wake in the morning, some new insight,
some lovely memory of the other,
warms and draws and holds them closer together.
So love begins in longing,
Love is transformed into belonging.
Author Unknown
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