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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 29-Jan-05/11:29 AM
Perhaps I should have added that it seemed what they were promising was more than either of them could deliver should the circumstances shown in the poem come to pass – his going to the ends of the earth and doing the most despicable things, or his cruelties and abuses, or hers. I know few women who seem able to keep their promise of “For better or worse” if he does those things and keeps doing them. My parents made it together for 55 years until death parted them, but neither of them faced great infidelity or abuse. Their marriage and yours are love as it should be.




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