Poem

Love's New Strength

When you have tasted love's mad passioned fever,
And drank so deeply from her naked breast,
Given yourself up and failed the test,
And by love's madness lost your love forever,

When you have scaled her glorious slippery heights,
And fallen from the last ice covered peak,
And lay down in the valley crushed and weak,
It's harder then to trust again love's. light.

So now in taking time to piece my dashed heart back together,
And finding strength and courage now to scale that peak once more,
I know the cost of failure and the great gift there in store,
My heart and love are bonded strong to be your greatest treasure.

Clifton Goodwin
Autumn Twenty Twelve