for Edward
See? The one that chooses
chooses true —
How else could we have known,
though we were very young
and scarcely knew ourselves,
that it was right for us to be together?
And though we jockeyed —
tried and mostly failed
to put forth our positions —
though we had so little power
to influence each other
as we took our stands at our opposing poles
Eventually our magnets had to shimmy
to settle us right here
in snuggled closeness
and we asked each other last night:
Who chose who?
Well, maybe this was chosen
not by us
so much as by our deeper essence
that moves not from a choice
but from a law —
a law that works regardless of our constructs,
The law that shines the stars and tunes the worlds.
Happy Anniversary, my love!
©Wendy Mulhern
September 25, 2013