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Love isn’t amorousness, Nor is it hunger nor thirst, With vehemence, I insist: Love is a perpetual motion machine O! Break! Break! Break! My Hardened Heart! Be shattered by Love, And let all your disquietude be shaken out of you, like candy out of a pinata! E*very time you sacrifice something lesser for something greater, that is Love From the beginning, nothing you were taught will ever matter more Find in your heart the beginning, then work Love into practical things Erupt! With Joy! At the presence, near, of the Beloved Receive Her as though this new day will be your last Veneration may be for sillies or fuddies but DO it Elopement is all the way for the strong of heart Sight fails, and then the hands learn to know the face of the Beloved Crying verses with bell-like tongues fly out of those who yearn for Love's Purity Energy-in-motion is never big enough or beautiful enough to sing Her Name Near-to-Death, no heart, ever, does not prize it most Clearly, clean clinical classifications cloy, clot and clutz the fervidness of Love E*very time you sacrifice something lesser for something greater, that is Love And now, to the subject of reverence… When her body is a holy temple before you, When you must wash your hands and feet and face before you approach her When you joy to fluff her pillows or your breath catches, when you touch her face, When all of her is Divine unto you, and Delightful, and Dear THEN That is the beginning of Love! ______ * NOTE: 'effervescence' is spelled out, like in an acrostic poem 2/8/2019 Submitted for: Free Verse On Love -- 10 Words Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Lu Loo
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