[Mariner]

So...I'm back, once again, with another poem. I liked the suggestions made to the first poem I posted, made changes, and was pretty pleased...that doesn't happen often when I get someone to read a poem. It can be difficult to find someone who will give an honest opinion (hence why I'm back with another poem). Anyway...this one is a love poem. I usually hate writing love poems, I'm generally terrible at them and just try to avoid them. Love poems are difficult..likely because there are so many of them, it makes it nearly impossible to be very original. Anyway, here is my attempt...

Three Octobers

You wouldn’t have me,
I wasn’t having anyone else.
We met in naïve lust,
In the chill October air.
Something took root there,
There was no going back,
But there was no going forward.
We lay dormant in limbo,
Until love took us by surprise,
Steeling away with our minds.
It left us happy fools lost in a labyrinth of feeling.
Our hearts were reeling,
When reality struck us.
It’s not all chocolate and roses.
We had talks of war between tea and toast,
We cried midst hugs and laughter.
We weren’t certain what we were after,
Until we stripped each other bare.
Great love isn’t born without a little pain.
We can’t just give each other hearts,
We must give each other brains.
It hurts like lobotomy,
The result is greater than ecstasy.
Nothing under the sun compares.
We are separate.
We are equal.
We are whole.