Brian’sPoems

The Love You Seek

It’s hard to love
a slowly dying man,
perhaps even harder
than facing your own death.
But don’t mistake the difficult man
for the even more difficult task,
which is to inhabit the love
within your very being.

Love of youth,
of beauty
and of abundance
comes easily,
but it cannot endure
the weather,
the dark night,
nor the unquenchable thirst
which leads to the inevitable loss
of self.

The love you seek,
though you may be unaware of it,
pushes through tiny cracks
and enters beneath locked doors.
It whispers everything
you don’t want to hear,
then slowly demolishes
the vault you built
around your own
precious love.