Steve Mairs - This Ring
Channel: MairsandtheMonster
Date: 2013-12-11

A poem I wrote some time ago now.

I have some other spoken word stuff on my old channel mairsmusic btw: http://www.youtube.com/user/mairsmusic/videos

Check it out if you fancy it ;). Also this channel has others - browse our uploads why dontchya?

Words:

My heart will lie forever in this ring. Firmly held by this circular symbol my soul can never escape (although it would never truly desire to try). I am bound so firmly for eternity to the woman I love with bonds stronger than the sorrow and pain which flood my mind and my body today. A love unknown to the poet who believes they can capture or even fathom the depth and gravity of a soul like hers with simple words. What created such astonishing beauty cannot be comprehended by anything other than a feeling. A feeling that inspires when you're lonely and unsure, that lifts you up out of the darkness and above the clouds where the sunlight can warm your face unhindered. A feeling that frightens the very deepest parts of you that you try to ignore when you realise for the first time how limitless the love you hold truly is. And frightens you just the same the second time. The logical left brain may analyse the symptoms but never forget that the real cause is not to be understood, but experienced. It is a place in your heart and around your being in which time and space lose their meaning....and to drift without aim in a void so full of life is the only desire. The only thing which gives meaning to your breath and flowing blood. So great a thing that once it is found, it cannot be left. It will not be left. It is as alive as you and more dynamic than motion. It becomes you. And you, it.

And through Him, I am hers. Hers completely and no force is able to shake me from this foundation on which a glorious castle has sprung unbeknownst to the owner. But when God Himself builds a fortress to enclose two hearts and one soul, it is not a temporary affair. Before time began to flow through the cavities of the undefined and spill over into reality like the trickling branches of a melting stream a knot was tied that cannot be undone. And the whole of all the world's oceans could crash against the walls of this fortress and hell itself could rain liquid fire upon the rope in which this strange and beautiful union was consecrated yet not a thread would lie out of place. Like water on a stormy shore, if all I know and every last part of me breaks and reforms, dies and is reborn, changes shape, alters its fate crashes apart again into an unrecognisable semblance of what used to be this man 

One certainty remains..

and it brings surcease to the weariness of my consciousness, and a steadiness to my trembling hands. A courageousness to the less impressive character hiding in the caverns of my mind, and a oneness so profound that to draw even a breath in the harmonic silence seems sacrilegious.  

Through Him, I am hers. 

Always hers. 

Always Yours.

Soon the starlight will fade for the coming day and I find myself on a mountain as I thoughtfully linger. Thinking how this ring with my heart could not caress a more perfect finger.