Today it's unlikely but relationships can "Last for Life"
must adhere to vows for lifetime as husband and wife
Some essential ingredients from which you can't deviate
honor recipe or both will slowly but surely lose their mate

I'd argue the most significant are honesty and trust
lack of either assures partnership will be a bust
Another is both must equally embrace compromise
if one does and other doesn't guess who will agonize

Respect a component indispensable in making it last
without it 'together forever' becomes part of the past
"Til Death Do Us Part" feasible if boths true desire
50/50 because one-sided relationships ultimately expire

ACTIONS speak louder than words so SHOW you care
idle communication says life partners is no longer there
Relentless temptation is reason love's been buried
people shall never give up on concept of married