We are, at least most of us, looking for someone to share our lives with. However there is so much involved in that simple statement. To truly move into another person's life can be a terrifying thing, as can trusting them to move into your own life. The amount of trust involved, the scale of the pain risked, cannot be overstated. When we enter into relationship we open ourselves to, not the possibility, but the certainty of pain. Not only this but we mold ourselves around another person, becoming, in many ways, what they desire and hoping, trusting, that they in turn will become what we desire. This poem, again written to a woman that I do not yet know (or at least if I do I don't know that I know her...confused yet), asks the simple question presented in the title. Will You Be Mine, with all that that entails. A question at once exciting and terrifying both to ask and to answer.
Will you walk with me
Daily take my back
As new worries pile
Ever higher upon the old
Will you stand with me
Ever staying at my side
Fight my fight, run my race
E'en though we look sure to lose
Will you run with me
E'er keeping pace with my stride
Whether slow or fast I run
Will you, at my side, remain
Will you live with me
Daily giving your life for mine
While I as well give my own for you
Life for Life, made one by eternal union
For if you will adventure waits
Hope and joy and pain in unity entwined
Love and life united now as one
Even as our two selves combine
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