There is a place where the soul travels

It is where a marriage has taken place

Vows were spoken there that cannot be broken.



No amount of external pressure can break the vows

A vow made not to another, but to thy self

The vow is to know thy own truth, not maybe another’s.



On the outside all manner of effort and compromises

Can take over the stage and the play goes on, though badly

It is shameful, despicable when this is allowed to happen.



Safety remains so long as the internal vows are not broken.

And what are those ‘to thy self be true’ vows?

They are to hold oneself free so that you can give up freedom.



When the ONLY ONE finally enters your life

And the freedom that you are giving up is the soul’s choice

When will my soul be willing to give up its freedom?



When will your soul be willing to give up its freedom?

Do you know what ‘giving up’ means?

It means that expecting perfection in another is out.



All the tenderness, the wets exchanged, all the closeness

While wonderful and sweet, cannot be mistaken

For the choice to give up one’s freedom.


How will we know whether we are at that place in our hearts?

Are we now ready to give up our personal freedoms?

In exchange for each other’s promise to only speak the truth.


And what is that sacred ritual that matters so much

That is tests our very souls?

It is ‘TRUTH’ spelled ‘TRUST.’


Give me one kind of trust, the one that is not blind

Nor is it prying, spying and imagining

It is trust wrapped in love, where imperfection is OK.


Ok it is, because as a poem my parents loved said:

“We may love a bit, and scrap a bit, and chum a bit,

we two, but in all the world, there is no one else but you.”




(Name)___________________, love me, trust me be true to me.

I, (Name)________________ will love you, trust you and be true to you.

Give to each of us our freedom to be imperfect.



Allow the passage of time to be the final measure

Of whether my soul has made new vows just for you

And the Heavens will one day welcome us hand in hand.

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