LOVE IS NOT LOVE

 

I.
Love
is not
Love
persuades
Bill
When
changed
by
Circumstance
II.
Are we offering (here) a mother's love?
a father's?
Plato's?

Love
of
Country
Does not
Cross here:
Born of Freedom's seed
Died at the
back of the bus
in Seoul
on Minh's trail
in Baghdad
before the bar.
Christ/God love

stillborn

in the Vatican.

III.
Shadow
to the
end one Love

love thick
and bouyant
essential
Love,
Foils death's desire.
Seeks no soul.

as children
behind grown-up reasons.

We hide it.