MARRIAGE, YIN and YANG, a poem

 

A woman ensnares a man

in Carolyn Heilbrun’s analysis:

“the rest is aging and regret”

On the other side of that grim coin

are the fruits of a joyful marriage:

pleasure, connection, children

Your experience could be

the luck of the draw,

or perhaps the product

of a life lived well or ill

 

The quote comes from Heilbrun’s book,

WRITING A WOMAN’S LIFE.

CONJUGAL SECRETS, a poem

 

 

Think of others,

and so will I

Yet, we’ll be together

till we die

 

Our inner thoughts

might center on desire

for those in our pasts

who set us on fire

 

Don’t tell me,

I won’t tell you

And, we’ll live

happily ever after

 

 

LONG LOVING

She was the heady stuff

          Of elite human beings

          Thinking her own thoughts

          Living her own life

          Being a modern woman

          She was all mine

          To a limited extent

          I was all hers

          To a limited extent

          In an old-fashioned marriage

          Life was splendid

          When we were one

          Dissatisfaction did bring        

Trying times on occasion

In our long loving marriage