The Complex Simplicity Of Love
Love, to be looking at photographs
of loneliness and laughing at its strength;
so weak now in better days.
What would I dare for in lover's eyes,
simple words of beauty and concern,
a taste of tears on tears in mournful wanting
of a life free from barbed wire thoughts.
Love, to capture smiles and give my own
in a passing gesture of heartache;
good, pulsing with passions I hold
and need to share in everyday movement
where I don't crouch forward and rush
through the day as if it was
the final hours my life expected.
Love, to have its simplicity in all
its complexity, to know that I have a place
inside another's wanting, gracious smiles,
to dance on air and not fall flat
into the realms of wasted dreams.
I can fire my spirit a thousand times
and blink away regret as it is caught.
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Submitted on June 04, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
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Words | 148 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7 |
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