Love On the Line

He said too much or not enough, his mind could not encompass love. the word was hanging in the wind behind the house of might have been strung on a clothesline in a row, with other words he could not know, like hope and happiness and truth concepts stolen from his youth a woman penned them on the line because she didn't have the time to use them to enrich the life of children born in times of strife wet with tears she hung them out forgetting what they were about and like a child without his clothes he's naked in the things he knows wet with tears he cannot cry, his mother hung love out to dry.