Perpetual Love
If you want your love to last forever
turn around midway and walk away
to go back in time and frequently savor;
Let the flame of love in you eternally burn
and let the longing perpetually churn,
Wherefore to pine and surfeit day by day
and keep the lure of love unfathomable ever.
Pluck and cherish a flower in its bloom
and let it go as the northern winds blow,
holding it too close then ought to doom.
To stay young and be loved forever
that time and distance never can sever...
then pay heed—how it ought to go
like retracting steps from a hushed room.
~Posted: 8/29/18
~For a Michelle Faulkner's contest
~Rhyme Time 6 contest by Laura Loo
~Theme: Perpetual love
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