He Loves Her, He Loves Her Not - An Echo Poem
He Loves Her? He Loves Her Not? – An Echo Poem
By Darren White and Brian Johnston
Darren White’s Original Poem – WHAT LOVE LOOKS LIKE
PoetrySoup.com - Reprinted with permission
“If anyone asks you
how the perfect satisfaction
of all our sexual wanting
will look, lift your face
and say,
Like this.”
- Rumi
I lift my face to you, my anyone
my only one, my love,
And see your question
unspoken but screamed
all over you
This is what love looks like
What it looks like with
only that one person
I see you read you
every line of you
words without any
meaning full of meaning
I read you I see your face
I taste the sun and the moon
and all the stars in all the
fireworks.
Darren White
Brian Johnston’s Echo - I Do Not Doubt That Love Is Real
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I do not doubt that love is real,
Just shy to offer up myself
As shining gem that you might steal
Or place in glass case on a shelf,
Holding to the selfish view
That somehow I am just for you.
I know I cannot love like that,
There's not just ONE that I desire,
My temperament's more like a cat.
But, looking still, I don’t conspire
To say that I cannot be yours…
Just “Love” is not all which secures.
I doubt that 'Rumi' showed his face
To only one and kept this vow,
For “sexual wanting” has no place,
'No love' it may not disavow.
“Like this” is just a moment’s urge
Which untoward thoughts may quickly purge.
In love though lives a higher plane,
Where jealousy is just fool’s gold,
And even dolts like me can gain
By seeing that it's just blindfold!
Integrity’s your only friend,
It might just save you in the end.
For sun and moon and stars all fade,
Like vows that promise you’re the one,
Like cocktails, we drink in the shade,
The truth will out though your heart’s won,
So chose a mate beloved by folk,
Don’t sell your future, be a joke.
Brian Johnston
April 9, 2017
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