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Yoked with You
When we wed I only knew
It felt right to be with you
It's true our faith was the same
What we were playing was no game
I trusted my own father's sign
That you could really be mine
And I be yoked with you
Equally yoked with you
Beliefs, maturity in like faith
Supposedly measure the quality of fate
Instead with you a Christian baby
A man with one year's faith, maybe
And me with five years or more
Third generation through faith's door
You, divorced, past sins purging
Me, an unkissed virgin
You jamming to rock-n-roll
Me strictly trained to hymnal
The TV culture you took in
Made me feel touched by sin
Still none of that mattered anyway
The truth to me was clear as day
People judged us harsh and wrong
Said we could not last for long
But we've lasted all these years
Grown in love and faced down fears
After all is said and done
Our legacy is how we won
So our children, purpose proves
That means I'm equally yoked with you
It felt right to be with you
It's true our faith was the same
What we were playing was no game
I trusted my own father's sign
That you could really be mine
And I be yoked with you
Equally yoked with you
Beliefs, maturity in like faith
Supposedly measure the quality of fate
Instead with you a Christian baby
A man with one year's faith, maybe
And me with five years or more
Third generation through faith's door
You, divorced, past sins purging
Me, an unkissed virgin
You jamming to rock-n-roll
Me strictly trained to hymnal
The TV culture you took in
Made me feel touched by sin
Still none of that mattered anyway
The truth to me was clear as day
People judged us harsh and wrong
Said we could not last for long
But we've lasted all these years
Grown in love and faced down fears
After all is said and done
Our legacy is how we won
So our children, purpose proves
That means I'm equally yoked with you
Published 9th Jan 2018
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17th Jan 2018 8:54pm
26th Feb 2018 4:30am
Thank you for your support and encouragement! It's an honor to get the feedback.
26th Feb 2018 2:51am
I felt the emphasis on religion was a bit too strong. I like the story of proving the endurance of love to society, especially in the last stanza.
Thank you!
It's a very religious romance poem because it's the autobiography of a zealot falling in love and finding higher morals than the formalities her church was pushing.
In other words, I can't strip out the religion without revising my actual history.
Your reviews are a pleasure. Thank you so much for your valuable time and encouragement!
It's a very religious romance poem because it's the autobiography of a zealot falling in love and finding higher morals than the formalities her church was pushing.
In other words, I can't strip out the religion without revising my actual history.
Your reviews are a pleasure. Thank you so much for your valuable time and encouragement!
