4/21/2025 for This or That, Vol 32 Poetry Contest sponsored by Edward Ibeh
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return" ~ from the song Nature Boy, written by George McGrew, aka eden ahbez, and recorded by Nat King Cole and others A child born, unloved, in the winter cold might like a river, from affection, run; but like brittle bones when they get old, when colder still, might freeze, shrink from the sun. Afraid that warmth might make him break and crack, this sad, and lonely fragile entity, may view love as a frightening attack, and a threat to his timid identity. To quote, "the greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return".
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