We Started Out as Friends and Now It's Love

February 11, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is romantic love.

Today’s poem is about how friendship turned to love.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

We started out as friends and now it's love.

How beautiful to move so easily

From comradeship to passionate intimacy,

Pure gain, with no rough edges to remove.

This turn was nothing I'd been thinking of,

No maybes or perhapses, consciously.

I knew desire, but love was not for me

Until I felt my heart from friendship move.

I never felt so happily at home

As I do now, so rich in what life brings.

Your pleasure now is mine, as mine is yours.

I never realized that my life alone

Flitted like a ghost among dead things,

Glancing in through other people's doors.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/westar.html. For more love poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Romantic Love

February 6: I Look at You and Think: I Cannot Live

February 7: You Have an Angel’s Face, a Loving Heart

February 8: We Separated Many Years Ago

February 9: You Taught Me How to Laugh Again

February 10: When We First Met You Seemed a Timid Doe

February 11: We Started Out as Friends and Now It’s Love