To The Man I Married
by Angela Manalang-Gloria (thanks very much to Cathy, Jay's fianceé, who posted this in their wedding blog. This is such a beautiful poem, I had to copy.)
You are my earth and all that earth implies:
The gravity that ballasts me in space,
The air I breathe, the land that stills my cries
For food and shelter against devouring days.
You are the earth whose orbit marks my way
And sets my north and south, my east and west,
You are the final, elemental clay
The driven heart must turn to for its rest.
If in your arms that hold me now so near
I lift my keening thoughts to another one,
As trees long rooted to the earth uprear
Their quickening leaves and flowers to the sun,
You who are earth, O never doubt that I
Need you no less because I need the sky!
-==-
They also mentioned in their blog a poem by Dr. Cirilo Bautista called "Lovers Learn" but they only quoted a few specific lines:
“true love travels and is blind
to signals and hazards that stay the mind,
O no, it pushes on, it moves on, it never weeps,
and pushing on, moving on, increases, and keeps.”
and this one awesome line from Dr. Bautista as well (unfortunately, they didn't mention a title so i'm assuming it's still from the same poem above):
“You are the one poem I can never write”
Sigh. Whenever I read things like this, the ones that go straight to my heart and literally give me goosebumps, I wish I had thought of writing something like it first. It's so simple, but so strong, it's wonderful :)
So to anyone who are familiar with the poem or that line above, please let me know? I'd love to read it in full.
You are my earth and all that earth implies:
The gravity that ballasts me in space,
The air I breathe, the land that stills my cries
For food and shelter against devouring days.
You are the earth whose orbit marks my way
And sets my north and south, my east and west,
You are the final, elemental clay
The driven heart must turn to for its rest.
If in your arms that hold me now so near
I lift my keening thoughts to another one,
As trees long rooted to the earth uprear
Their quickening leaves and flowers to the sun,
You who are earth, O never doubt that I
Need you no less because I need the sky!
-==-
They also mentioned in their blog a poem by Dr. Cirilo Bautista called "Lovers Learn" but they only quoted a few specific lines:
“true love travels and is blind
to signals and hazards that stay the mind,
O no, it pushes on, it moves on, it never weeps,
and pushing on, moving on, increases, and keeps.”
and this one awesome line from Dr. Bautista as well (unfortunately, they didn't mention a title so i'm assuming it's still from the same poem above):
“You are the one poem I can never write”
Sigh. Whenever I read things like this, the ones that go straight to my heart and literally give me goosebumps, I wish I had thought of writing something like it first. It's so simple, but so strong, it's wonderful :)
So to anyone who are familiar with the poem or that line above, please let me know? I'd love to read it in full.
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