# Togetherness

*a poem for a wedding*

By [Compossible - that which can live together](https://paragraph.com/@compossible) · 2024-06-06

poetry

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Write me a poem about being together...

One wonders when to rhyme it with weather

Or whether to say

Weathering the storms altogether

And yet like relationships

The best lines of a poem

Are not made to be a perfect fit  

In poetry & life we must aim

For a richer deeper vein

To try to ascertain

The hidden rhythm and rhyme

That connects our lives  

Ladies & gentleman

We are gathered here today to see

A brave and near foolhardy thing

Two people’s lives have intersected such

That they are willing 

To seek to complete 

The imperfect circle

From time to time

They may see eye to eye

On this or that  

Yet to uncover the meaning of today

They here agree

To agree to disagree

In the long intervals in-between

I have heard said, and read,

That love is like two trees

Intermingling to become one

That type of poem may do

For the feeble and the young

It appears to me that love

Is much stronger than that

For what tree ever argued with itself?

A better image to imagine would be

Two trees in an orchard contentedly

Separate in space and in time

And knowing they can never be

As one  

Leaves fall and summers breeze

The rain & wind

Shakes the boughs

& the trees stay rooted & strong

Gazing at each other through the years

Until at last one winter too many falls

One might say

‘How sad to be those trees

Condemned to be alone’

But we should say happy trees!

You shared so much together

And knew each other better

Than you knew yourselves  

It is the space between us

That defines us & our love for each other

The space we allow each other

To breathe & grow

So if you will spend your lives

Trying to be together

Remember

The measure is not how close you are

But how you live with

The distance between you

May you spend your lives

Exploring and guarding

The space around you

_Who knows_

_What may grow_

_In the ground_

_Between?_

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*Originally published on [Compossible - that which can live together](https://paragraph.com/@compossible/togetherness)*