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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoQnHTNe2hU&ab_channel=LoreenaMcKennitt-Topic

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(author's note: indulging in some fantasy - I'm not 100% on board with the idea that ever-after always works out.)

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She didn’t want him

Because he made her feel wanted -  

No shallow ego satiation; 

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She didn’t want him because he’d be easy to rule -

Not for some mediocre exchange;

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She didn’t want him for his emotional security,

His insights or the uncanny way 

That he seemed to see what she was thinking; 

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She didn’t want him for status, his means,

Not for wealth, not for gain, 

Not as some material investment

On a future that she might prompt him

Into perilously building for them;

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She didn’t want him for his body,

Scarred that it may have been;

Not so that they could share in their insecurities

As the fruits of a budding

Mutual co-dependence;

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She didn’t want him for his animism,

Neither his heritage nor culture;

Not for his name; not for rings;

Not for garlands; dresses; 

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Not for any bouquets.

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She just wanted him - in a way 

That transcends words.

And so, as such stories go, it was nearly overnight 

And just like that, that he’d made himself

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Unquestioningly, voluntarily

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Hers.

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