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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2004-11-05 02:07 AM

What is love if not something
to keep us satisfied
and grounded in the place we’re at
be it husband or a wife
for in truth we must provide
what’s needed on the side
and not ride in tandem
on the bike of own desires.

If you would climb a cliff
and I would rather knit
does it make love any less
in the ultimate design?

Yet in the search for sameness
and like minded desires
the core of happiness
can escape unseeing eyes,
cause husbands to abort,
wives to bemoan their fate,
and fuel the fires of war
in every home and state.

What is love if not something
we want but never get
when stubborn we rebel against
vulnerability?

And I am vulnerable
each time I say I love you
and closeted behind a wall
in darkness evermore
when teamed and mated with
one who rides in tandem
but dulls my inner light.

It seems that way to me
as I sit here trying to see
what makes one person special
and the other like disease
spreading through my soul
the pain of loneliness
even though the world
holds another view.

I come back down to energy,
what’s compatible with mine,
and how a touch can stimulate
reciprocity
and that can’t be explained
when I would rather knit
and you would climb a cliff.

What is love if not something
completely indescribable
but too it can be there
for one and not the other
and that’s the strange something
I’ve yet to understand
when I know the meaning of
the word “compatible”!

Kethry
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-29

Posts 9082
Victoria Australia

1 posted 2004-11-05 06:59 AM

Honeybunch, I think compatible is more about being together and fitting together rather than being the same. And what if he should climb a cliff while you sit at the top and knit? Is that any less romantic than if you do the same things all the time? Good write, very fluid.

Here in the midst of my lonely abyss, a single joy I find...your presence in my mind. Unknown

icebox
Member Elite

since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

2 posted 2004-11-05 09:43 AM

Love is a promise accepted but whispered too softly to be heard.

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

3 posted 2004-11-05 10:43 AM

questions that all ponder, Helen. I like icebox's answer.

Susan
Member Ascendant

since 2004-03-27

Posts 5104
walking the surreal

4 posted 2004-11-05 10:46 PM

Enjoyed the thoughtfulness of this, the ideas it stirred - thank you -

Susan

Happiness isn't something that happens to you, it's created from within you. Joy is a state of mind.

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

5 posted 2004-11-05 11:54 PM

Thank you all so much for reading and responding.

Icebox - yes, I like what you said but the trouble is that some people do hear.

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

6 posted 2004-11-06 02:07 PM

I love this one Helen...
and I do agree with Icebox.
~Smiles & Hugs, Nancy~

Now while the leaves still dance on the wind
While the moon and the clouds come spinning
Will you whisper my name again?
Again..and again.

Marge Tindal

Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

7 posted 2004-11-06 02:51 PM

Helen~

'And I am vulnerable
each time I say I love you'

And I was thinking that I am also vulnerable each time I hear it said to me~

A poignant penning dear poetess~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram <))><

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