The Covenant That Still Holds

Even if faith allowed it,

I would not seek another’s hearth,

Nor share my bed with a stranger—

Only him, the one I wed,

The one my heart chose long before the day we pledged.

Though I believe in plural love,

With the covenant fractured,

To seek another

Would be spiritual adultery.

Yet deeper still,

No desire stirs for another man,

No longing calls me to a new embrace.

I have tried—

Tried to force my heart to bend,

Wondering if the gods might shift something,

But each attempt only proves

My love remains unmoved, unbroken,

Burning as fiercely as it did on that sacred day,

Perhaps more fiercely still.

This past year has been a crucible—

Anger, heartbreak, confusion—

Yet through it all,

I declare without hesitation:

I love him as deeply as I ever have.

Beyond words, beyond gestures,

Beyond the brokenness that surrounds us.

Marriage is my calling,

My sacred center.

Not marriage to any soul,

But marriage to him.

The covenant we forged

Lives beyond ceremony, beyond ritual,

Beyond witnesses and celebration.

It is the living embodiment of love,

The license that allowed me to protect him,

To defend, to uplift,

A sacred reciprocity unmatched in any realm.

Without it, I am stripped of power,

Authority, recognition.

His welfare no longer mine to guard;

Mine no longer his.

Should peril fall upon him,

I have no right, no voice, no claim.

This is the fracture I mourn most deeply:

To lose the holy act of service,

The act through which my love burned brightest,

Cuts to the marrow of my being.

And yet, even in absence,

My love endures—

Immutable, unquenchable, undiminished.

It asks nothing of recognition,

Requires no seal or license.

It simply is,

A flame the world cannot touch,

A bond no court can sever.

What remains is love essential,

Love that asks nothing, gives everything,

Love that persists because it cannot do otherwise.

Though no longer spouse by law,

I am wholly devoted.

True covenant lives in the heart,

In fire that no fracture can extinguish,

A devotion that burns beyond paper,

Beyond ceremony,

Beyond all else.

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