The Past Is like a Sculpture

October 3, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A love poem about how love can change someone for the better:

The past is like a sculpture:
Cold, unyielding stone,
Shaped in all the heat of life
But now best left alone.

If you'd like to look at it,
I'm sure that you will see
Someone somewhat similar,
But not the same as me.

The difference is in loving you,
Which changes sex to light,
From ego-driven ecstasy
To mutual delight;

From self-consuming pleasure
That can the self destroy,
To self-surpassing tenderness,
And joy in giving joy.

I am no longer who I was,
But am completely yours
In all my passion and desire,
In all that faith restores;

So do not turn away from me,
Jealous of the past,
And we in our embrace shall dance
To music that will last.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/thepas.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
September 29: I Don’t Know Why My Feelings Are So Strong
September 30: How Can I Know So Surely that I’ll Love You
October 1: Just Loving You Has Been a Revelation
October 2: Love Is like an Iceberg
October 3: The Past Is like a Sculpture