Pleasures Come and Go; Love Abides

September 28, 2020

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

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A love poem that compares love to pleasure:

Pleasures come and go; love abides.
Joy comes only at the risk of pain.
The wise know well the rhythms of the tides.

For love, just like an organ tone, resides
Beneath the ebb and flow that it sustains.
Pleasures come and go; love abides.

One loves beyond the need for choosing sides,
Beyond the calculus of loss and gain.
The wise know well the rhythms of the tides,

Know well the passions, purposes, and prides,
The wills and wishes that must wax and wane.
Pleasures come and go; love abides,

The truth within the truths that chafe and chide,
The truth that after truths expire remains.
The wise know well the rhythms of the tides,

The anguish and the happiness that ride
The waves' wild wash across life's sandy plain.
Pleasures come and go; love abides.
The wise know well the rhythms of the tides.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/pleas7.html. For more love poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Love
September 28: Pleasures Come and Go: Love Abides