Closing The 'Book' Poem by Marsha Youree

My marriage was like a good book. I really didn't want it to end, but it did anyway. Maybe I should have just read one chapter at a time instead of reading it straight through. And now, it lays on the coffee table as a beautiful reminder of beautiful shared memories. Or maybe I should just store it away.......at least for the time being.

The difference in a Great Marriage and a Marriage, is that A Great Marriage has no ending. And really it dosen't even have a beginning. Once you have it.......it is like a match made in Heaven and has always been and always will be. There is NO ENDING. It is like magic that has been set free.....free to love.....free to live....free to give as well as receive....free to be yourself.....free to laugh. A love that is always unconditional. There is no such thing as a conditional love or marriage.

But in our desire and need for our real true love, we are often so deceived. With our own lonely and empty hearts we tend to think that we have found the one and only. And when we wake up one day only to discover that it is over..... the pain is far worse than any illness. The pain of wondering what happened. The pain of being lost. The pain of being confused. The pain of being a failure. And so then we start to retreat. To cry. To suffer. To cry. To agonize. To cry. To grieve. To cry. To reflect. To cry. To isolate. To cry.

Now I must close my book and read no more, It will remain in my heart, filled with special and treasured moments for the rest of my life. My book has no title, just a book full of passion, a heartfelt love, sunshine, beauty, and apparently, a lot of drama, that lead to a great deal of sadness. The book was so good, I couldn't put it down. As I was reading, it all seemed so real. But in reality, I realize now.....it was only a book with many beautiful, loving, caring, kind and gentle words that took me ten years to read.

Maybe one day, when I am ready, I will find another good book that may turn into a bestseller, because that is who I am, that is how God made me....To seek and to find....Our One and Only Bestseller
But for now.....I had to close the book and put away.What I had thought was a bestseller......turned out only to be a good book, but a very good and special book with a sad ending.

Hopefully, one day I will find that bestseller that has no ending and I will never have to put it down.....