Love Poem: The Process of Love
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Written by: Slight Buckling

The Process of Love

Smooth silk about me 
Pulling the lines from my heart
The warmth about such things
Melts away that cold certainty
            A boy pulling a little girl's hair
            A young man kissing a ladies hand 
            An old man's watery stare
 
Hidden words about me
Dragging the pain from my experience
The turbulence about such things
Stokes the fire of that need
            A single bowl of breakfast
            A lonely breeze at dusk
            A shadow's death at night 
 
Giant hands about me
Holding closely for my resolve
The butterflies about such things
Prop me on the edge of that cliff
            A finger to an uncertain fate 
            A nudge toward my fears
            A step I must take forever