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"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." Peter Ustinov

This is one of my favorite sayings. Is it true? I don't know. I'm currently in the process of finding out. In any event, the following poem was inspired by it.

I used a form of poetic argument called The Bop, and it is the form for the Form Poetry Contest this month, if you care to give it a try.

Oh I Love

Oh, I love you
I love how you came swaggering into my life
Held me, caressed me
Took me by the hand and hauled me off to see the world
But now another voice is taking over, whispering
He doesn’t listen to you, and I feel my eyes turning red

And I know that if you only lay your hand against my cheek,
I will forgive, I will forgive you endlessly, with a tender look

And I’m right, I know I am
I travel light years to be with you
I enter your world as Alice must once
Have entered wonderland
But now it palls, and I wonder,
Will you ever enter my world with the same relish and
Fervor that I give you? And my anger,
Like green kudzu, grows

And I know that if you only lay your hand against my cheek,
I will forgive, I will forgive you endlessly, with a tender look

I miss the early days when I’d drop everything
And the world waited tenderly and mistily
While we fell in love
Finally I rise like smoke from the smoldering ashes
And tell you what’s on my mind
And you come, not everyday, but you come

And I know that if you only lay your hand against my cheek,
I will forgive, I will forgive you endlessly, with a tender look

Qimissung