The Fire In The Marriage Choice We Desire Poem by John Sensele

Arise at sunrise to surprise the exercise
Which in a twist of fate
Sought and wrought from you and I the prize
Wrapped and fastened in a debt

Incurred by our families
Unknown to you and I
In concealed diaries, fairies and homilies
For reasons known only to our parents and their wishes to apply

Old marriage standards
Steeped in benighted beliefs
Whose placards and bards
Emblazoned on reefs

You and I find outdated
In belief, form, spirit and substance
Premeditated and precipitated
To breach the affluence, confluence and influence of our confidence

Can't mean well
For the future you and I prefer
To foretell and spell in a groundswell
Of the love we can't refer

To whims and wishes of parents
Who seldom care
Whether marriage referents
Fair or unfair

Consider our feelings
Deep or shallow
In backdoor dealings
To say hullo

To the choice
You and I make
In our own voice
To stake

The future we desire
In marriage
And the fire
Flowing in the personal choice in our matrimonial carriage

For you and I to bless
To love and to hold
As you and I caress and address
Marriage choices, wishes, voices and whims which no parents can no longer withhold.