17: Real Wedding Vows by Celita
Real Wedding Vows
I thought about writing the typical Christian love poem
Quoting every part of 1 Corinthians chapter 13
But how many typical Christian love poems
Have we heard saying the same lines and the same things
Love is patient, love is kind, love is not boastful
Love keeps in mind
That we all make mistakes and I shouldn’t hold them against you
But I would like to talk a little differently about love if you allow me too
You see love is painful
Love is hard
Love cuts deep
Love leaves scars
So today we don’t commit only to the glamour and the glitz
But to the real journey of love, my love, do you commit to it?
I vow to love you when it hurts
When the odds are stacked against us and we don’t know how it’s going to work
I vow to love you when it stings
Putting everything above myself, putting on hold my wants, my needs, my dreams
I vow to love you when I bleed
Bleeding emotions of confusion when I’m seeing illusions of what’s real
I vow to love you through my needs
Needing understanding and compromise regarding the way that I feel
You see love is painful
Love is hard
Love cuts deep
Love leaves scars
So this day I choose to love you in the way they don’t show you in romance novels and Hollywood flicks
That punch-drunk love
That get-you-out-of-a-funk love
That love come quick
Our child is sick
And it’s still an hour till six
In the morning love
I walk down this isle taking it all in
Leaving nothing for granted
I walked down this isle and now I’m all in
My feet firmly planted
Ready to grow in the soil of true love
That love that doesn’t break under pressure
Ready to lock arms and toil with you love
For ever and ever and ever
You see love is painful
Love is hard
Love cuts deep
And love leaves scars
I soberly recognize the truth of love
So I will never turn and walk away
My heart has been turned to you, my love
And my love is here to stay
