I waited awhile for your smile,
perhaps too long.
It never came until too late.
I shall never know
why you made me wait
until I said, “I’ll
be going now.”
Your face lit up in joyful prose
and told me all I needed to know.
Tag Archives: companionship
AGES OF LOVE
No one tells us love takes time to ferment,
like a yeast bread, or fine wine.
The heady fermenting scent unsettles us all the while;
and, we fearfully seek avenues of escape
from the changes in its composition.
Love’s growth challenges our position.
We stop and wonder how we got here;
even though we still do not know where we are.
Thus, such questions make us feel like fools.
Patience is a virtue because it is so rare.
Kindness and faith in one another is the only rule
to follow on the route which keeps love alive.
Blindly, we stumble past years of discontent.
Only after decades of loving do we realize
we carried one another’s hopes and dreams,
like a heavy sack upon our back until
we reached the destination where we could build
the life we were each destined to lead.
Hand in hand we stand and view the space
which has become our most sacred place;
the place we hesitantly share, breathing the same air,
remembering the same joys and sorrows,
hoping for just one more tomorrow
of loving communion and contented union
of two bodies now made one, finally.
We look around us with wonder.
We finally know how to love, over and under.
Love takes time, yours and mine.
Filed under POETRY
COURAGE!
Too many today feel disaffection
expecting a loving connection
where none is possible.
Independence is overrated
in a culture soaked in sex
and self-gratification.
What bonds can be created
when self-focus reigns supreme
and dodges vulnerability
at every opportunity.
What love can grow in such infertility?
Have we lost the basic ability
to fall in love, to wrap in feeling
the deepest needs we fear to speak?
Courage! Courage! Take the risk to try
to open your heart, deep and wide.
Yes, love may fail. It almost certainly will.
But taking love’s ride is such a thrill.
Grab that hand. Touch that cheek.
Allow your deepest longings to speak.
Perhaps this one will
be the one who listens
with a heart ready to be filled
with you.
Filed under POETRY
