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In Answer To Your Question (Prose Poem) by Dovina

Suppose I tell you I love you no matter what you do, that nothing you can do will make my love go away? Suppose I tell you I keep no logs of cruelties, broken promises, abuses, past or future? What if I tell you you can run to the ends of the earth and do the most horrible, unthinkable things, and if you come back, I’ll receive you with tears and a party? Suppose I say you don’t have to put on a mask, and it’s okay to be anything you are and I will never punish you, and when you mess up, I will never nag? What if you know my love isn’t based on how little wrong you do and you can hurt my heart but I will never hurt yours? What if I tell you there is no secret agenda, no trap door and no turning back? At such time as I can tell you this I will marry you.

Dovina 28-Jan-05/10:47 AM
Interesting! A line drawn in the Poemranker sand. A supposition about marriage labeled as “woman.” Do you mean that a woman is incapable of commitment to the degree presented in the poem, and a man is? Perhaps you think only a man is that strong or that foolish. Maybe you mean that what I am really saying is that I want this kind of commitment from the man I marry, and that no woman can expect that.

You understand the supposition of the narrator, that he or she is not promising, but thinking about promises. When we say, “til death do us part” and “for better or worse,” how different is that from the promises considered in the poem?

No, I think your line is drawn in less sensible sand. They usually are when living is at stake. I’m guessing that some of my lines have dredged up a woman’s meanness. For that I apologize on behalf of the sex for all the times we have demanded promises from our men, when it’s not his promises that make us happy, but his surprises.

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