When Love Is an Affliction

This is the place to search for a free wedding poem for that special person. The best resource for quotes and wedding poetry.

#73 When Love Is an Affliction

When love is an affliction,
There's not much one can do.
Despite the way you've treated me,
I'm still in love with you.

I am the wave and you the rock
Against which I must break:
Again, again the crushing jolt,
The pain I can't forsake;

Again, again the long retreat
To safety, far from shore,
And then again, I don't know why,
The long trip back for more.

Perhaps it is nostalgia for
A long uncertain glow,
Or just some hope so beautiful
I cannot let it go.

Perhaps it is the need to try
For those who must depend
On who we are and what we do,
For whom this should not end.

What evil makes you hurt me so,
What defect of the heart?
What sense there is no greater whole
Of which you are a part?

What lonely choice that only you
Be served by what you choose?
What hard, hard fear of losing what
It is a gift to lose?

I dream sometimes my waiting love
Has made you turn again.
But you care only for yourself,
And I must love in vain.



The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. ~Peter Devries

I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance,
A church filled with family and friends.
I asked him what kind of a wedding he wished for,
He said one that would make me his wife.
~Author Unknown

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. ~Author Unknown

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar. -Robert Frost

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.-Aristotle

Home - Wedding Quotes
Link to this page

Free Poetry Contest Poetry.com will award over 1,200 awards and prizes totaling over $100,000 to amateur poets in the coming months. All contestants are eligible for both of our contests. Join Now!

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.-Roy Goodman

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. ~Rita Rudner

Copy and paste this into the code of your webpage:
<a href="http://www.lovethepoem.com/weddingpoems">Free wedding poems</a>
All wedding poems are welcome to the LoveThePoem.Com contest! All amateur poets are encouraged to send their wedding poems - short blessing, readings, scroll, wedding day anniversary , thank you, invitation, shower, proposal