Love Poem: Your Swinging Door
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Written by: Kurt Philip Behm

Your Swinging Door

I answered with love,
you questioned
with anger and pain

I then held you close,
but your eyes
failed me again

I told you truly,
as our wishes
dropped to the floor

Then you asked again,
and my heart
—your swinging door

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)