I Never Thought I Ever Would Get Married

June 27, 2018

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

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A wedding poem about freely choosing to constrain oneself through marriage:

I never thought I ever would get married.

I wanted no restraint upon my will.

But like the wind I wanted to be carried

Wherever wish might take me, yearning still.

And then I fell in love with you, and found

A rock upon which I might build a home,

A place both for and to which I was bound,

So bountiful I had no need to roam.

Freedom cannot be except by choosing,

And choice, if choice it be, of need constrains.

And joy, once had, becomes, for fear of losing,

A horse one rides with firm grip on the reins.

Thus my choice to love you as your wife

Is freely made, yet made for all my life.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Weddings

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6/26: We Met as Merely Words upon a Screen

6/27: I Never Thought I Ever Would Get Married