Love Poem: The Centre of Life
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Written by: Dominique Webb

The Centre of Life

That we love is unquestioned, not a point of controversy,
Our marital or partnership ring is personal and never mandatorily issued; 
Youth lets us find it in order to keep and hand it on a generation, 
As it symbolises our joy, contentment and exhilaration. 

When we are lonely or selfish in our relationship with the other, 
The ring on our finger inspires with platitudes which save, 
From ourselves or society’s fashionable, glamorous glaze, 
To treasure the person that we love, until we are for them brave. 

When Bilbo embarked on the journey to retake his land, 
He found a ring which he felt so personally attracted to, 
And so kept it for the use, meaning and magic that did from it emanate, 
‘Cos its semiology was his cosmology as its sign was life immaculate. 

But when he approached his land, a dragon claimed it so, 
Which made Bilbo consider his strategy and individuality, 
And when he actioned the ring, strength was his reality: 
He only had to think about or touch it, and so upheld it in supremacy. 

Our symbol of the ring for love alludes to a greater ring, 
A friendship ring to admire and like, and maybe to suggest and fight; 
If someone’s land is his or hers, and is not, it means evil lurks, 
So Bilbo invigorated love’s power to kill and vanquish this night. 

Smaug the dragon held evil and torment in his breath,  
Fiery and without request of light, gumption or relationship;  
Bilbo even calls himself a bulgier of its world of hardship, 
Slavery, murder and creatures of all-consuming darkness.

The physical ring only facilitates the person to aspire, 
But in Bilbo’s time it was in danger of falling into the wrong hands, 
So Bilbo allowed Smaug’s hell-pit to thus consume the golden circlet, 
Such that all that was left was those who accept love’s commands. 

That killed Smaug and the origin of sin and immorality, 
‘Cos to posses the ring is not to necessarily to honour it, 
So when Bilbo returned home from his adventure, 
His life continued on in his nephew’s by his conjecture. 


About Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit adventure.