Husband and Wife

A couple should be of one mind

in order to be husband and wife.

A couple should have no distance between them

in order for them to be husband and wife.

A couple should not try to possess each others' minds'

A couple should not fight

or have any expectations of one another.

A couple should soothe each other of their scars'

A couple should not cry or laugh.

A couple should care for one another.

A couple should laugh in the good times and the bad'

A couple may get angry at each other,

but they should not own it.

A couple may fight, but it should not be a fight.

A couple may laugh, but it should not be laughter'

A couple may love, but it should not be love.

A couple that has truly departed from all of these

things is a true husband and wife.

Page 32 of “Nature Flows” by Woo Myung