Go or wait

by Larry Chamberlin   May 27, 2010


Love is the thing that interrupts my daily routine
That states there is someone more important than me;
And points me to the direction she just left - to gaze:
To follow, or to wait, there lies the 'ternal crux.

If I follow, she'll feel hard pressed, unable to stand
Free on her own, without my strict analysis
Assigning importance to her stance, posture, her art,
E'en her eye lidded response to my ministries.

If I wait, she may feel less important than the world,
(Though I'd give it all for a single lash to have
For memory's sake), then she'd lose faith & cognition
Of my devotion, despair of my love, be gone.

Wait or go, follow or stay, chose the die: it is cast!
And so I followed, she brought me home, here I stay.
Children, pets, gardens and things I never expected
And she pirouettes ever in my dreams and arms.

LMC 27 May 2010

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  • 8 years ago

    by Golden AnGel Rhapsodist

    Sir Larry,

    I'm starting to know you( I mean ,How you put things and feeling into words)

    kinda sweet and elegantly penned..

    Refreshing piece.

    Gel

  • 8 years ago

    by Em

    Larry, I thought I would take a look at older stuff and came across this.

    The title drew me in because I wondered what exactly it would be about being in the love section so opened it up and was met with one of the sincerest and honest love pieces I have read in some time.

    1: love is many things and when we find that special someone to lie for all eternity it is difficult to imagine life without them but like here we often question ourselves and ask if we are doing the right thing for them.

    2: I love this part because if we spend each waking minute with the one's we love (and some people do) they will feel like their right arms been cut off when we leave thus not allowing them to be there own individual though it can strengthen some people and go e them courage to walk on their own two feet.

    3: Liked this a lot... It says lots that if we wait for a person we can lose our own faith in ourselves and they can forget our initial intentions. That's what I got from this part anyway.

    4: Here, we have the decision to wait, leave, love or not love ans you have executed it well. I love the ending bringing it back to reality of what this special lady (I presume your wife) and how she has given you all this over the years pets, children etc, loved that personal touch.

    All the best, Em

  • 13 years ago

    by ECILA ice

    This one is cute, i thought it will be the usual poems that has tragic or gloomy ending but there's this sudden twist..something simple and sweet.

  • 13 years ago

    by Sean

    I loved this!

    You have a unusually clever style for this site :)

  • 14 years ago

    by Lynn Anderson

    Truly beautiful! Good work! Love the feeling in this poem!

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