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.
annarino writes 