Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!nonh
From: nonh@utzoo.UUCP (Chris Robertson)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: What is love?
Message-ID: <4927@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 00:45:10 EST
Article-I.D.: utzoo.4927
Posted: Tue Jan 15 00:45:10 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 15-Jan-85 00:45:10 EST
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
Lines: 31

How much is held within this word, "alive" --

see, here are you and I, our separate beings
with all our private thoughts and needs and loves
(so much to each of us), all caught within
the curl of living, and given explanation.
Yet always life implies a death, and so
we reckon time, count days, and sigh lost years;
and wondering note how little time is left.

Then, when I look at you, do not ask me why
I reach to touch you --
for you are beautiful and you delight me.
I touch you as I catch at a flower, gently;
but always passing, even as the flowers themselves
are transient.

Be it enough to say, Here are we two;
and let this be our faith for the while.
But do not ask the impossible of me --
no man may halt the changing of his year.

Oh please believe me that I love you now,
and understand we may not love forever --
for even as we deny it, our seasons are turning
and will bring us to this point again;

but then, we shall stand in another year -- and alone.


--chris