Poetry Series: Song of Solomon

Not a usual pick for poetry - I was listening to a song on the treadmill this morning that had these lines. They are full and true. I've seen more marriages than I can count on one hand dissolve into flames in the past few years. I read these lines as my toast at a wedding of one of those dissolved marriages. It rings out both a warning and a hope that love will burn its mark into me.

Song of Solomon 8:6-7

Set me as a seal upon your heart,
As a seal upon your arm;
For love is as strong as death,
Jealousy as cruel as the grave;
It's flames are flames of fire,
A most vehement flame.

Many waters cannot quench love,
Nor can floods drown it.
If a man would give for love
All the wealth of his house,
It would be utterly despised.


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