Love's Lonely Quest
Love’s Lonely Quest
Are we programmed from Above
To search for everlasting Love?
Or is it from some other place
To seek the Other’s lovely face?
Is it some cruel joke,
That those that love us might not stoke
Our hearts with joyful ardor
But might make us search far harder?
Do we have a missing piece
That finding it will increase
Our joyful sense of self
And cause us to take our heart down from the shelf?
Are you prone to settle?
For The Quest, have you the mettle?
For your search, you will be bullied
And your name will be sullied
Some will think you are quite daft
That you seek, in this boiling sea, a raft
Almost sinking, you seek a Spirit
Whose voice will lift you, when you hear it
Driven closer to the rocks,
Drawn in by some golden locks
You can hear the waves a-crashing
With each one, your hopes they’re dashing
You struggle on, hour by hour
Your countenance does stay quite dour
Your head is now below water
Like a lamb, led to slaughter,
You will, in seconds, confront Death
Unable more to draw a breath
Suddenly, you see a light
A rescue beacon splits the night
A rescuer has thrown a ring
This really changes everything!
A moment before, pure disaster
And now your heart beats much faster
The one that has saved your life
Has consented to be your Wife!
Now we must both get to shore
To live in Love forever more!
I know that we can make it
Any trouble, we can take it
Those troubles that are too big for one,
Can, with two, easily be done
I must tell you, though not fun
The QUEST can lead you to the Sun
Where you will live out all your days
In Love’s warming rays!
Copyright © Rick Rucker | Year Posted 2010
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