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The Real Marriage
Eventually we all have to say I DO to ourselves
Whether or not you are married now, have been married, or will be married – regardless of the quality of your marriage – you will eventually need to marry yourself. And by that, I mean you will need to experience the soul mate within — the aspect of your true self from which all love emanates.
Here is a poem I wrote a few months after my 29-year marriage came to an end…
THE REAL MARRIAGE
Today, my own best man, alone in my room,
I am going to marry myself,
love who I am until death do me part,
embracing what exists at the core of my being, knowing, as I do, that my soul mate lives inside me, closer than my own breath,
muse of my muse and has always been with me, even when I was not, whole until itself,
radiant, free,
snuggling in its wrinkled pajamas with infinity.
This marriage of myself,
this loving the love that loves
is not a rejection of the world,
nor is it a denial of the passionate glory of loving another.
