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How?
How can I make you understand
That you are all I need?
There is no motive in my plan,
Not avarice or greed.
I simply want to be your choice
Through thick or thin in life.
Our love is reason to rejoice.
I'll be a loving wife.
You, as I know the man you are,
Will be my greatest fan.
You say I am your only star,
So I'll do all I can.
I'll fan the embers, stoke the fire,
And hold you in my heart,
'Til we're consumed by banked desire,
Or we're no more apart.
I cannot promise sunny skies
Through all our wedded days,
But I CAN promise love that's pure,
A love that's true and stays.
The rhetorical opening of
"How?" sets its open hearted
metaphorical conception.
Yet, the beauty of this
poem lies not in its form
of creative art; but in
Jessica's unequivocal
explication of her:
"Through thick or thin in life"
choice- a realistic choice
open enough to embrace the
labyrinths and maze in love
and its "reason to rejoice..."
Ugonna