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Love’s Fear
30 July 2006

As if you can’t give up on love
then what was love in a way to give
To seek, to learn, to touch
a silent way of feeling

A deepness, a tranquil dependence
but what made love real inside
Two spirits captured in a light
that lost in the heart feeling intense

Yet separation hid the vision
masking that beauty to endure
As if the myth was love itself
the mercy of deceptive means

Not to know, but to know
wrong could be wrong
For love did have its freedom
as to that of compromise
For who would love, if love did not exist
while reading between the lines
means loving was always at risk


“Where there is no vision, the people perish:
but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.”
Proverbs 29: 18 KJV


© 2006 Christopher W Herbert (a New Zealand Poet)

a poet who cares