Marriage Fundamentals, Marriage Nettles

If we own love, we marry to share
For each other to care
For the long haul genuine love to declare  

Despite God creating us with different procreative functions
Where God intended in marriage to impose no sanctions
At the inception of marriage and later at mature junctions

Where as husbands we play our more external roles
While our wives fly to attain their more internal goals
To ensure harmony pervades our matrimonial bowls

Regardless of how fast or slowly to intimacy we respond 
While we strive over the years to each other to correspond
To function seamlessly in our matrimonial pond, to cement our bond

Despite challenges that lurk in the background
As we learn to iron out pesky problems on the ground
Endeavouring to the best of our abilities to get around

Obstacles as to each other we render support and honour 
At breakfast, at lunch and at dinner where we grow cleaner
Love, understanding without becoming meaner

When tempers out of control
Set alight petrol on patrol
If we scribble nonsense on our matrimonial scroll

Which we can rejig by getting right the fundamentals
Comprising sharing, supporting and honouring petals
To reap serenity unless we invest in misconceptions to reap nettles.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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