Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Love Lingers in the Alleyways

March 6, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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A poem about fearing the chains of love, and fearing the loss of what love might destroy:

Love lingers in the alleyways
And wafts across the streets,
And knocks upon my double doors
But never does come in.

Love finds a home in entrance ways
And rattles round retreats,
And scurries past the faint applause
Just two doors down from sin.

Ah! Would I love would I but know
What love might have in store!
For I have fears of heavy chains
That jangle in my joy.

And I have fears of floods that flow
From asking life for more.
Silent, I prefer the gains
Such tempests would destroy.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Fear of Love
3/6: Love Lingers in the Alleyways

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