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Hoist a White Flag? No, Never Surrender Love to Life’s Felons
When life's demoralizers insist your best moments were "just a measly moment in time," Dave answers with defiance. This is Positive Love Poetry that contrasts love with life's violence without wallowing: the past may be unholdable, but it burns as an eternal flame in memory.
The imagery is tactile and celebratory. You feel the rush, see the fire you cannot cup in your hands, and arrive at "Kiss me now! Revel in our life; woof, meow." Love as strength against cynicism, never surrender.
A lot of those people
out there do their best
to demoralize us
by repeatedly insisting
that “yeah well that was just
a measly moment in time.”
Life goes on. Blah, blah…Bah!
You and I know this: it was a
compelling and outrageously
awesome moment in time,
there’s nothing wrong
with having had that rush,
no reason to cancel it,
it still exists in memories,
and we’ll hang on to it.
Okay, so we also know
we have to move on
to experience the
future’s impetus forward,
its momentum,
in whatever time to come.
So what that we can’t
hold the fire of the past
in our hands!
Yet it is an eternal flame.
We think of long-lost
moments tenderly;
therefore, they still exist.
For all of them, kiss me now!
Revel in our life; woof, meow.