"A Marriage" by Michael Blumenthal

The author of this poem is obviously describing a marriage. He describes it a ceiling that needs to continuously held up by the husband and wife, if not the house will fall. The ceiling represents the shared love of the matrimony and the house describes the marriage itself. If the ceiling falls then the love is no longer shared and the marriage ceases to exist. I can relate to this poem, not because I'm married or have been before, but because I once witnessed the destruction of a house which lead to the dissolution of my parent's marriage. Blumenthal hits the nail on the ehad with this description of a marriage because that is exactly what marriage is about, carrying on when your other cannot.