Love · Cross Every Bridge
Across Life’s Love’s Conversation
Dave hop-skips across the ellipses of textbook time and boards a dreamy ship where passengers become the entire crew. The nautical imagery is concrete: gangplanks, oversized chains, anchors pulled from the sea, engines in the din.
This is Positive Love Poetry about partnership as shared labor and equilibrium. Love serves as each other's balance through the elbow-grease process of learning by doing. A voyage forward, not a lament for what was lost.
We nimbly hop, skip
and jump on the ellipses
of textbook time,
into the inimitable future;
where does time go? We’ve
learned it’s impossible to know.
We walk up the gangplank
to the looming and
dreamy ship ready to sail;
no, don’t look down!
Engines manhandle a great
rope of oversized chain to
pull the anchor from the sea;
in the din, we were hardly
forewarned, never knew:
the passengers on this trip
become its entire crew.
“Do something, or something
will surely be done
to you!” cautions the captain,
the first, and last, valuable
piece of an action roadmap
tricky to learn solely
through the elbow-grease
process
of learning by doing.
Starting, and since, then,
our love for each other serves
as each other’s equilibrium;
of that, many people hope to
have as much, most, even some.
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