The One That Chooses

for Edward

See? The one that chooses

chooses true —

How else could we have known,

though we were very young

and scarcely knew ourselves,

that it was right for us to be together?

And though we jockeyed —

tried and mostly failed

to put forth our positions —

though we had so little power

to influence each other

as we took our stands at our opposing poles

Eventually our magnets had to shimmy

to settle us right here

in snuggled closeness

and we asked each other last night:

Who chose who?

Well, maybe this was chosen

not by us

so much as by our deeper essence

that moves not from a choice

but from a law —

a law that works regardless of our constructs,

The law that shines the stars and tunes the worlds.

Happy Anniversary, my love!

©Wendy Mulhern

September 25, 2013