A Wedding Poem

It seems very sad that as wedding ceremonies/ honeymoons become more and more elaborate, fantastic, and expensive, the greater the number of divorces.

Perhaps too much attention is being paid to the exterior, external surface of marriages, and less on the actual integrity of the relationship.

(Having said that - I believe that marriages in ages past - were often just legal contracts - in which both parties never knew each other - but custom, traditional, and misogynistic factors kept married people together - which seems fubar to me.)

I would think that before all marriages or even engagements take place - simple exercises ought to be taken which address 1. Mutual Respect, 2. Amicable Conflict Resolution, 3. Intolerable individual Traits and Practices - my, that was a mouthful.

Marriage is after all more than just a love affair - its a partnership - you're working together to build up a family - eventually - children - will come into this relationship.

Here's something I made up just then:

By the shores of the water we walk
Hand in hand
As the sunsets, so we may say farewell to our past lives
Let us greet the sunrise, the New Day, not as individuals with our own separate goals
But together as one, heart and soul, body and mind, devoted to one another
Caring not for our own selves but for each other.
We greet the faint rays of the Morning dawn as One.