Us
Us
...in love and marriage.
She leaves.
I stay at home.
We'll both travel
great distances in time,
through both work and words,
before coming back together again
to break bread and recount our day.
What is a modern marriage
without traditional roles,
without any children,
without the same old answers
to the same old questions?
As I hear her car pull away,
I pause to say a prayer
and ask for a blessing
come what may.
When marrying,
ask yourself this question:
Do you believe that you will be able
to converse well with this person
into your old age?
Everything else in marriage is transitory.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
