Monday, November 22, 2010

"Constantly"

"Do you love
me..." she asks,
fully knowing
that Love ebbs,
flows,
and is not steadfast:

full in the morning,
trailing off into little dips by noon,
and is fascinated
by the most usual of things
at dusk;
builds unnoticed,
stays, wobbly,
and destroys itself with passion,
rebuilding
and fizzling
out,
at whim;

arhythmic and
maddeningly predictable;
the more you say it is,
the more it is not;
and giving up, you resign yourself,
but now, it is...

(or is it?)

And she, knowing all this,
half-smiling (self-deprecating),
leads into
the adjective:
"...constantly?"

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