Scenes from a Marriage

Do we really save each other from solitude

through marriage

or do we just

fall into

marital loneliness?

or maybe life is just

an ode to solitude

and marriage not

the biggest miracle of our life

we are together

but apart

married

but more lonely

"Everything is still in confusion and nothing is any better. All relations are muddled and their lives are incontestably based on a heap of wretched compromises. But somehow they are now citizens of the world of reality in quite a different way from before. At least I think so."

--Ingmar Bergman, The Marriage Scenarios, trans. Alan Blair (New York: Pantheon Books, 1978), pp. 2-5.