Love Poem: Dimensions of Love
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Written by: Robert Ludden

Dimensions of Love

I thought to analyze this basic stuff
that is existence...taking love apart,
identifying every alias
that I could name.  
There was compassion and humility; 
there was romance in all its ages, 
and upon its fringes lurked desire.   
But that must now be cast aside as faithless,  
though there was compulsion deep within-- 
that may not be denied.  

My vanity in such an exercise
was clear enough, although there was a man 
named Paul who wrote a letter to his friends 
in Corinth--could as well have stopped it 
just as greatness loomed 
to crown his song about a word,  
for with unconscious  eloquence 
he crowned himself with need of nothing more.

Old Paul knew how to say unlovely things
and seldom held his tongue,
but in this thirteenth chapter there emerged
the poet's saint,  a mortal's dawning of
creation's mortar--quintessential truth.

In those post-lightning years he was no less
irascible, but bore within himself
an overflowing heart sustained by that
one ineluctable constraint 
that holds us all together in a spirit sea.
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