To All the Souls I Know
How far must a heart endure
the pain of its own salubrity and willingness,
to bare itself in love’s embrace so completely
that downtrodden I become,
when fickle natures and river’s run its course,
yet can I change this truthfulness inside,
upon a sleeve I cannot hide my truth,
and so I carry on, a despairing ruse,
a cycle I can no longer abide.
Alone I am, alone from loves fanciful dream,
fairy-tale schemes I’ve tried and lost,
expectations so crushed at cost
that happiness finds me elsewhere,
so can it be the insincerity that repeals my reason,
finds comfort in other seasons,
not burned but reality accessed and accepted,
my expectations have never matched a lover,
love to wane, a human game.
Love I share with many, unconditional some,
but heart-felt those who remain,
as giving and kindness is the sweetest refrain in life,
but lovers dig too deep, extort and reap
their own gains, or false security is played
while betrayal just antiquates the deal,
and I cannot abide the steal,
the heartbreak parade woven into life so dramatically,
my blood just drains away.
A cynic perhaps, but more like reality observed,
when souls of self-interest unfurl their sleeping bags
and promise words of sobriety
to be so drunk so soon after,
that I wonder what promise loving words do have,
given in the trance of wide-eyed fantasy,
all about self-fulfillment,
not a candidacy for the cause,
a love woven in an eternal tryst by law.
So, I care not being alone,
for love flows freely in my soul’s ease,
no contentions or on and off suspensions of some game,
and I not willing to tame any shrew,
none that I’ve seen of worth to me,
to imbue my life with anything more than I have already;
so steady I am in my perfect single world,
where sharing is my choice,
loving is my voice to all those souls I know.
Tony DeLorger © 2018
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Most expressive and wonderful poetry.
Many thanks Rasma, so pleased you appreciated it. Take care.
A loving voice it is. Very firm affirmation and well written, Tony.
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