Love One Another | Khalil Gibran Poem

On marriage. Here's a wonderful poem by the great Kahlil Gibran from his work "The Prophet".

Gibran Khalil Gibran (January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese-American writer, poet, and visual artist, also considered a philosopher although he himself rejected the title.

Transcript

Love one another,

But make not a bond of love.

Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Fill each other's cup,

But drink not from one cup.

Give one another of your bread,

But eat not from the same loaf.

Sing and dance together,

And be joyous,

But let each one of you be alone,

Even as the strings of lute are alone,

Though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts,

But not into each other's keeping,

For only the hand of life can contain your hearts,

And stand together,

Yet not too near together.

For the pillars of the temple stand apart,

And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

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Love

Like a flower blossom, how tender is love's birth.

Each touch, like a glimmer of early morning light, a dawn of unknown.

Each day the soul unfolds, with each connection of locking eyes, touching lips, joining breath. Heat rises, heart beat climbs, the peak is reached.

The new emotions, feelings begin to settle, a rhythm of acceptance comes.
More understanding. Forgiveness hugs each moment closer to the heart.

Then a cycle begins of releasing, letting go of the reality that's not love, resting to heal in the dream of love.

At last, differences fall away, love has created the one.