Three decades and more
I've ridden the nuptial rollercoaster,
in company of the same person,
a journey of both smiles and frowns,
life adding its own twits and turns,
facing unemployment, deaths, illness,
they all add to the scenery you share for good or bad.
Along the way, the heart still beats,
you try to remember why this thing called marriage
became the major attraction of you very existence.
Perfect and paradise are two words
with phantom meanings,
but whether it is an amusement park
or torture chamber
is based on what resides within the heart.
Something experienced together in tears and laughter
becomes the stare of silent acceptance,
living most or the times when a thrill comes your way,
dreading the moments when an accidents happen.
Kids, debts and duties
all weave together as a mantle of thought,
love a place you keep redefining,
compromise the storybook of reality,
anniversaries the fragile capstone of one's glass house,
built upon a foundation of I do.
A contest entry
- more than 10 by EeyoreUK.
300 points, ended September 11, 2008, 4 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Comments
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This brings smiles to share, the marriage thing seems to cover all the parts accepted and agreed upon from the beginning that recaptures passions shared as the thrill climbs the hill to coast down the drop and take the breath away. Reality can not define where one begins and the other ends being entwined together.Great write.
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Congratulations!
Nice job on being together for this amount of time! I commend you. The joys of being together! Congratulations and good luck in the contest!!
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