Love Is Eulogized

(....dedicated to a moment I spent with love, being in love....making love on 7/14/14)
 
 
The first time ever I saw your face  
I thought the sun rose in your eyes.....
 
...and love spoke of gifts
moon and stars
given to the dark and endless skies
Where were you?
Where was I ?
Why does our humanity
allow love to die?
 
 
The first time ever I kissed your mouth
I felt the earth move in my hands...
 
and hearts trembled
like the beating wings
of a captive bird
but now those words  
are seldom heard
 
love being found in
contrition and
lewd conditions
and things....
 
....does love not personify life ?
 
so
why do we let it die?
 
Why?
 
 
The first time ever I lay with you
I felt your heart so close to mine
 
...and we made love
and love filled the earth,
you were my woman
I was your man
and the universe  
knew it's worth,
and our hearts  
learned to respect  
the power of a love,
 
everlasting
 
but now love
finds itself  
lost in a cheesy masquerade
"Purposed by design"
infinite variations
of this futile game  
we play
 
surrounded by mountains of things
and the temporary pleasures  
that these things bring...
 
....if you love me
 
in a world of
self-indulgent
segregation
and self imposed loneliness
turning our backs
on the power that
allowed us to be...
 
passing into darkness
like an errant breeze
it's beautiful bright light
extinguished...
 
...the  love
I recognized
in your eyes
the first time
I saw your face.....
 
...why does humanity
let it die?
 
 
 
 
 
 
(.....thanks to the beautiful lyrics of Ewan McColl{1957} and the lyrical stylings of Ms. Roberta Flack {my itinerant english professor in the late 70's})
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jVMTydhx1Y