TO HAVE, AND NOT HOLD

"With This Click, I Thee Web"

My heart was heavily guarded,
None inside might be permitted.
Long neglect had rendered it hardened,
As upon Life's abuses 'twas spitted!

Then arose, unanticipated
From a place where I'd never dared look
She for whom my heart had long waited
A new chapter within my life's book!

Began we at first blush with caution,
Awakening passions long-quiet,
But ere long, knots were loosed, too long tautened
So decided we may as well try it!

Now, Fair Reader, condemn not in haste,
For I sought not her bed first, or soon,
I longed not her fair Spirit to waste
By behaving too like a buffoon!

No, her heart and her mind I first delved
Learning all that I might of her life
Love came first, before Caution was shelved
And I then made of her my e-wife!

What between us has passed I'll not share,
But within my heart's closet hold close.
Nor would I ever cause her despair--
But instead, to our Love raise a toast!

What has happened here, who could foresee?--
It has taken me quite by surprise!
But I know, Here's where I need to be
Every time I look into her eyes!

So, Fair Reader, would you wish us the best,
Nor condemn what you don't wish to see?
As our lives survive each day's new test:
Hand-in-hand, heart-by-heart, her with me!

September Sixth, 2009
 

Reviews

[Lizanne]

I will assume congratulations are in order for your e-marriage. Lovely and understandable writing. Best wishes to the smitten and the bitten. -May the relationship be long and fulfilling. Cyber love, hmmmmm no alimony, no bills, no nagging, no honey do's or honey don'ts, this is getting to sound pretty good.

[Marie Anzalone]

I would most cautiously suggest, Mark, that you may not be alone in the endeavour described. This fair lady DOES wish you all the best... and shall keep very very quiet on her own experiences of this nature... for now.

That being said, I really enjoyed the gentle spirit and genuine sweetness of this poem. It is easy, almost too easy, in this day and age, to proclaim strong emotions via Internet. Why? For the same reason it's easier to kill people in video games- you don;t have to look a breathing, living human being in the face while you do it! I am truly glad the ending suggests that the woman in question is now your lovely wife... it gives me some hope that I may still meet someone yet out there who can understand me!

[Ellen Hammond]

Such a sweet, and sentimental poem straight from the heart and keyboard. Seems like a lot of us have been bitten by a cyber love bug. LOL Love it!