Love Is Gentle and Fierce
Love is Gentle as a fawn
New life in the woods
Green as a fern and fierce as a torrential rain
It flows like river sweeping you away
But kind as a down pillow at the end of a horrific day
It walks by rivers
and withstands storms
It faces down tornados
Jumps like a frog
Runs like a deer
Protects like a lion
and hides like a lamb
It reflects off of sunlight
and glints on the river rocks
It walks tall and falls down hard on paths of gravel
It is sweet like coffee and a morning muffin
but cruel like too much to drink
It's light as air
and thick as mud
It is quicksand and a mountain you climb
that touches the sky
Love is a rainbow and a flood
It's a soft touch and a severe locking of eyes
It is a kiss that never happens
and passion that will never acquiesce
It is promises kept and promises forgotten
It is here now and gone
sometimes
But then it's never gone
It is the tide that comes in on a tide that goes out
There are a thousand ways that love can meet you
as a wave and
leave you like a wave
A Rose in your hand
a rose by any other name that will never smell as sweet
as the first time...but will always smell so sweet
Even when it's a rose that you cannot touch
It is a Rose
you will remember forever
Copyright © Ingrid Showalter Swift | Year Posted 2022
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