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Audio and Video Music:
Emotional Love Theme.
By Biz Baz Studio.
Music free to use
at YouTube.
Love is the spring from which all
longing flows.
Long may we long for what we have, for this
Is happiness, the bliss in wedded bliss,
Where married longing deepens as it slows.
How beautiful! The passion comes and goes
While love draws from the well of the abyss,
Watering well the seed of every kiss
As loves well tended soon take root and grow.
To love must be an everyday decision
Taken out of unrepented need,
The recognition of one's ceaseless longing.
The view depends on values more than vision,
The choice to let the choosing self recede,
Behind which lies revealed the grace of
loving.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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