I Will Accept Myself

I will, I will accept myself
With hope and fear and wonder
And what I have joined together
Let no man put asunder. ~ Dory Previn “Morning Star/Evening Star”

The tenth chapter of Mark
we know so well the words
simply belong in the order
the King James version records,
For this cause shall a man
leave his father and mother,
and cleave to his wife;And they twain shall be one flesh:
so then they are no more twain,
but one flesh.What therefore God
hath joined together,
let not man put asunder.Whether or not we’veput a marriage asunder,
there’s a relationship
we must hold together
with “asundering” unquestioned
and that’s the joinder
of me, myself, and I.
Can you aver, “I will accept myself
With hope and fear and wonder
And what I have joined together
Let no man put asunder?”