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On Being Married
The one below was inspired by W.B. Yeats' poem "A Coat"-
Many thanks Mr. Yeats.
On Being Married
Remove this skin; this outer layer
It's binding and constricting at best
It's irksome and it's bothersome
It robs me of my rest-
I've searched and searched to no avail
To find true peace within
Constantly meeting with a wall
Painted bold with lies and sins
And is it you or you or him?
Faceless gazes look beyond
None to meet my eyes with truth
None to sing of Peace in song
Weighed upon my shoulders heavy
The trials of these moments lived
Bound beneath a life of errors
I wonder what there's left to give?
Perhaps a coat stitched with threads
Richly delicate in embroideries
Memories of my life thus far
Weighed down heavy with mythologies
I'd shirk it, just as I'd rid my skin
Be done with bindings and the ties
For a life of simple truths
Not calloused with blind lies
on being marries
Marriage can be a beautiul experience, if both partners agree..
if they don't it can be hell on earth.
I believe in youth we get too excited and leap into something
we know nothing about. Then children happen along and
most people stay together for the sake of the kids.
Sometimes I think this is good, then other times I think it is
a mistake.
But I do know if we are patient the right one will come along.
And the wait will be well worthwhile...Love an be fulfilling. h
"I believe in youth we get
"I believe in youth we get too excited and leap into something
we know nothing about. Then children happen along and
most people stay together for the sake of the kids.
Sometimes I think this is good, then other times I think it is
a mistake."
Exactly what I did...and it was a mistake. I was young, foolish and thought I knew it all...lol, however, I did have the gift of having 2 sons to raise...the only good thing to come from our time together. I think we both knew from the start it was a mistake, well I did anyway...
"But I do know if we are patient the right one will come along.
And the wait will be well worthwhile...Love an be fulfilling. h"
You're right! He did come along in 2006, 4 years after my divorce...it feels as if it's been forever, John Donne's poem, The Good Morrow, says it all about our love.
Peace. Always.