Perseverance Brings Good Fortunate

 

Another two hours in a department store

While waiting for her to buy socks

I text my lover and the wait is better

In fact my life’s improved whenever

I no longer wait for little to happen

To sweeten it in ways she will not try

Though I encourage her with reasons 

She hasn’t missed my presence

without anger or denigration

I love her for what she can offer

And do all the things we have done.

 

Better stay home after an all-day out

To stay unnoticed as we continue

 As everyone happily doesn't miss me

Though it not easy for a writer to be unseen 

“Memory believes before knowing remembers.

Believes longer than recollects,

Longer than knowing even wonders,”*

It is something I have always known

A feeling I can never forget

Nothing matters what I write at home

And details would only encumber me

 

I have seen the best minds of my generation

Wallowing in loveless frustration

Taking the easy way out of marriage

Drinking themselves to death, smoking blank stares

Reverting to pornography and fantasy

All-ing or nothing their existence to be

Numbing the heartbeat setting them free

The heartbeat of love that keeps beckoning

The endless kisses of closed-eyed sensation

The path that angels unfold for the daring

A new morning of life for the caring

 

So I go on living making this image real

Every loving echo of reciprocal sensation

Or a dead man’s lost reverberation

There is no time to lose for living

The breath she’s taken away from forgetting

Breathing softly in my ear 

The words I long to hear

Touching every curve distinctively  

The lady sweats fragrantly with grace

As I taste the odds against the marketplace

And find perseverance overcoming obstruction 

January 15, 2021

(*William Faulkner) 

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