Saturday, February 5, 2011

What Is Love Between a Man and a Woman

This poem is by my mother. She doesn't have a blog, so I decided to ask her if I could post it here.

What is love between a man and woman

What is that when time has passed

I know what it is not---

It refuses to be how it was in the beginning

It cannot persist to be new or fresh or innocent

When words are replaced by silence

or when silence hides behind words

When preoccupation with demands of life

stands between Love and love

Who then keeps watch on the love

This I know as true---that a man and woman

chooses to stand beyond the circle of love

Risk the whole world to fall apart

Remove the conditions that comfort

Because together they are greater than they are apart

1 comment:

  1. Ulan!!! How could I have NOT known all this time that you have this wonderful blog? Keep writing, keep creating! But, I'm sure you're already doing that :)

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