Four-leaf clovers are rare
Commitments are rarer
I found her a clover
She's sure it's an error
Although Virtue and Justice
Rarer than gold and diamonds have become,
Man, ought never to give up going after them
If he wishes his links with the divine to keep
And his humanity to maintain!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
29 March 2022
Good Friends are Rare, Love’s Rarer Still!
Good friends are rare, are rarely known outside of family:
commitment’s lacking; expectations fade as if a fire dies down.
Some women sacrifice all dreams to dream a child will come,
emotions hint there’s nothing that might matter more (for life’s a rout!)
Though man’s a useful nuisance, pays most bills, drinks beer, most die
before she will. Men leave, chase skirts, lose jobs, flaunt rules, draw shortest straws.
But child embraced helps mom embrace life’s best retirement plan!
Most men will trust her child is his, child’s name’s the life of Clan.
He follows food; she follows him, his trade, the game, the times, “God’s laws.”
Man risks the world, wives man their home! While wives must wait, men try
to rally others to their cause; they work the land, find game about.
I’d be your friend, to wife friend too, to Love (this makes me dumb?).
Did Christ cheat cross or die for us? In faith, let Grace then quench your frown,
for rarest Love the world has known, though rare, Christ gives to thee!
Long Tooth
December 7th in 2020
By heaven, who is rarer than he?
A ray of light thus catching my eye in one fibre of strand
To the ends of the earth, who is rarer than he?
A mountain of solid rock towering over my weak, shifting sand
Of all things beautiful, who is rarer than he?
Though tempests’ ardent force may kill, or brackish ocean breeze may dance with trees
Still the question ensues like fire: who is rarer than he?
No power on earth, not one rational enmity can answer me
Who is rarer than he?
Who is rarer than he?
Leaving me questioning constantly and overturning my imagination
Who is rarer than he?
Tell me, what being on earth can leave me with this scorching sensation?
Who is rarer than he?
Is he merely a crafted dream, a frivolous hallucination?
Who is rarer than he?
Tis the Lord almighty, who fashioned him with gold and celestial animation
Who is rarer than He?
God, please forgive me
Tell me he’s just a dream…