Roger Thomas Poet Romanticism

Seeking Someone Special

If you are in the midst of seeking someone special,

Don't let that great thief of hope 

"Discouragement",

Cause you to abandon your dream.  


Discouragement can put blinders

On the seekers and cause them to

Carelessly grasp on to a relationship

That might have a worm in the middle.


Hope deferred can induce some people 

To rely upon

Brief intimate encounters to satisfy

Their long standing loneliness.


The danger in this kind of hasty gratification is

The users become impatient and lose sight 

Of the pleasures offered by 

A time proven cloudless companionship.


Intolerance causes them to look for satisfaction

In any abrupt incident,

After which they rationalize,

"I won't count this time.  This time was only for my need."


But, "this time", and all the others will count.

They count as surely as the calories 

In a piece of chocolate cake

Tally up the sin of gain to someone on a strict diet.


Every lascivious encounter leaves a scar

In the cradle of the mind.

And, each can become as experience 

Recalled with damaged pride.


Anything of an unnatural nature

That is repeated in excess

Is difficult to eliminate.

There is some for you!


Someday, somewhere, somebody will say something,

Or do something that will touch your emotions in a most positive way.

Be true to yourself.

Then, when you make the right connection

You will understand what it is to be grateful.

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