Marriage, as a Choice, Requires Choices

January 14, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is marriage.

Today’s poem is from wife to husband vowing to overcome marital difficulties.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Marriage, as a choice, requires choices.

One must choose not once, but every day.

Life offers us a hundred thousand voices,

Yet those we fail to hear fast fade away.

I choose you with all my wounded heart:

You and our two children. All the rest

Lies in the distance, charming, but apart

From the circle of the ones with whom I'm blessed.

Our marriage isn't easy, but our love

Is still the force that shapes my daily life.

I want us to be happy, and will move

Wherever I must be to be your wife.

I'm yours, and I want you to be mine.

We'll find a way our wishes to combine.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/marri2.html. For more poems about marriage, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/marriagepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Marriage

January 9: Jody and Blue

January 10: Joy Is in the Simple Things

January 11: Life Sings with an Extraordinary Passion

January 12: Love Finds Little Latitude

January 13: Love Returns on Saturdays

January 14: Marriage, as a Choice, RequiresChoices