Love Poem: Orchid By the Beach
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Written by: Leonard Taormina

Orchid By the Beach

So beautifuly aluring and unique
some have been attracted to her as substance
norishment if you will
others have seeked and been driven by the instinct of desire
in the end all are but victims of deception

  Like a magnet I was attracted to her
  her very being seeemed so fragile in it's existence
  I was driven by both need and desire
  I had to have her for my own
  I wanted all and got most with little resistence

A day came when she demanded more 
all my efforts to meet her demands  only ended in futility
perhaps my efforts were simply to insufficient
forced to step back to watch 
she became a prize for someone else to adore

  In time my turn came again
  with aggressiveness I presented my intents
  I challenged her very continuance with my subsequent departure
  soon in desperation I was pledging my devotions
  I exponded on her beauty and voved to repent

I continued on like a mindless insect
she seemed the same but somehow she was not
if I only knew then what I know now
she was meerely a reflection
a reflection of my own greed

  All along the beach there were many such as her
  I could have chose another
  but I did not, I could not
  change was a conceptuality of will, I had none
  such is life on the plant, some do, some don't, some have to be