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The only immutable love is for everyone

Tested, checked and solemn

From a lifetime of experience

 

I swear the failure was brighter

Than the sweetest of joys!

Such being a poet, neither quarrels

 

Or miles, can wash away love

The one deep thought I thought

I’d hold for all of eternity

 

This shouts joy for me and

I will spare no words

About the good things

 

As a foolish graffiti artist

Your name shall be camouflaged

In all that I ever do and say

 

I will not forget the hardships or the struggle

The household ghosts who kept me warm

When my gentle droning knew no release

 

I’ll fetch you sugar from the shopkeeper

And I’ll pretend with him, that you are still with me.

 

Reviews

[Circe]

hey... this is a love poem!!! I really love the last four verses... they read completely perfect to me... brilliant poem. I think the hardships and struggles are what keeps us alive to change and create... the last lines will stay with me, so genius.

[Prolific In Verse]

I'm not sure it is a love poem, I'd have to be in love with myself to even know what that means.

[Circe]

you don't love yourself?

[L]

Wow. This is holding some big feeling down with fingertips that we might glimpse it too.

[Prolific In Verse]

my finger tips of a lifetime of dirt in them, my heart has the whole world inside of it. I do not know what else to say?

[Marie]

Only a poet could say "..."the failure was brighter/Than the sweetest of joys..."
So lyrical and meaningful...

[Prolific In Verse]

Yes and as a poet, I like to imagine the depths higher and lower, the risk to sanity in writing emotional lyrics though is great, I take fortitude in realizing that your literary technique is shrewd and likely protected from madness in some good old fashioned way.

when I am old and have been divorced three times, I shall hopefully write clean topics and "go back to Benny"