November 27, 2017
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. This week’s theme is wedding anniversaries.
Today’s poem is a 49th anniversary poem about
love and choice.
I welcome comments on my poems at
https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Freedom is the power to
commit
Oneself
to limiting one’s freedom. Real choice
Rules out
choices. One finds the proper fit,
Then
through years of loving finds one’s voice.
Yet some
are loath to choose because they fear
Not being
free to choose, at every moment
In flight
from choice because they cannot bear
Not
living only, solely, in the present.
Each
lover lives within a larger space,
Yielding
to the future and the past,
Engaged
in well-timed acts of timeless grace
As each,
each day renews a love that lasts.
Rejoice,
then, in that choice made long ago,
Still choosing
love, for love is what you know.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/freed4.html.
For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html
.
This week’s theme: Wedding Anniversaries
November 27: Freedom Is the Power to Commit
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