Love Poem: Like Gravity
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Written by: Barbara Aquila

Like Gravity

What is the mystery that holds
two people together like gravity
though worlds collide
well thought plans only flash like comets
dreams merely flicker like star

After years and years of daily habit
   alarm clocks, coffee cups, dinner pots
After years and years mending children
   kissing tears, teaching truth, rejecting fear
The harvest years remain in golden fields of time
   with grandchildren and memory
   what if's and what-might-have-been and
   what-was-not

Still
   steadfast and true
   we love each other
Defying
   the world spirit with its self-serving tongue
   we speak another language
   needing not words
   spoken in a glance or a feeling
   spoken in the secret knowledge of each other

Perhaps there is no mystery here
   Human plans fail and hearts break.
   Dreams frustrate reality.
   Feelings diffuse thoughts and confuse commitment.

There is an order to the universe
   Surely
the Creator of worlds beyond worlds 
   can hold us together.
   By knowing Him
   we will truly know each other.
Worlds beyond worlds
Eternal love.