Marriage mysteries.:2

Body battles in bed

The need arises to-

Touch, caress and feel love.

The mind seeks arousal.

Caresses and sweat excite.

The smell of sex sensuates the body.

Fantasies unfold to fabricate

Desires of decadent and

Tumultuous lulling lust.

The soul yearns to survive

The stress of existence

And continue the mechanisms

Of life.

The knowledge

That after so many years

The body and mind can still revive in this intimacy

Is reassuring.

All is not lost

With the morning starts another day.

Roads divide,

Intersected by

Comings and goings,

Paying bills

And planning meals.

Misunderstandings and forgivings,

Mundane chores to complete.

The taps to mend,

The bulbs to replace

And arguments about

Whose duties are they.

Listless living

And overlookings.

Clothes pile up

Needing settling.

Toilets scream for cleaning

As one day overlaps another

Getting lost in this hasty living.

Then another night comes.

Body seeks body.

Hands touch,

Lips meet

And heads rest on each other.

Peace sets in with ecstasy

As bodies squirm and thrush

Sticky with sweat,

Aching for that momentary reassuring bliss.

Then the final kiss.

Woes are forgotten.

Satisfaction and

Peaceful sleep.

All is indeed well.

MARRIAGE MYSTERY 1

I look at you fast asleep beside me...
You in one world, me in another ,
and wonder how --
YOU and ME
Together__
Have made a family!

Forefathers--
Grandfathers and grandmothers,
Their forefathers and families--
All have been left behind.
Most we don't know.
Ahead we've moved ,
Together we've stayed
and
Created a new family!
With each year we move further and further away.

Each marriage is a creation
planned by God.
Perfected or imperfected by Man.

Love distributes.
Responsibilities distribute.
Time, space, duties, values and ethics
Connect and reconnect.
Relationships metamorphosise.
Pain, anger, love and all feelings_
Change and rechange.
What is it then that still bind us
Together?

There is no blood or umbical cord to bind us.
Why is it that we feel we have to remain together?
Children break away from parents:
There is no hesitation then!
Parents, who with love have created us ,
Become different when we marry.
Why?

It is indeed strange
That when
Parents and later even children
Become different--
We will remain--
Man and Wife
With nothing to bind us
But feelings and social norms
and perhaps
A thought.

You and Me ,
Together,
Will become
Someone's grandfather and grandmother.
To future generations,
We will be forefathers
Together as
Man and Wife'
We will remain one