So Who Said It Was Easy

So who said it was easy to keep old flames burning?
Even experts could use a little divine help now and then.
The easy part is to go out and be brilliant as Shakespeare.
Harder--much harder--to be the light dancing in someone else's eyes.

Lights such as love require more faith than fuel.
Of all leaps, the most dangerous is into the mind of your lover.
Regarding miracles: What is less explicable than
Remaining in love through the long icy anguish of anger?
All lovers long for freedom only slightly less than they fear it.
In the end, love burns not desire but fear.
Not one of us would be capable of keeping the fire burning
Except for the knowledge that it is the sweetest, best, and most
beautiful thing in our lives.

Nicholas Gordon

Reader Comments

I thought I loved you
Name: Cathy	2004-09-28
I once told you that I thought I loved you. Well that has changed to something alittle more like I love you Don. I hope that once we're together that the love will grow stronger, as well as our mutual respect for each other.

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Name: Saydet

2013-02-21

Well, at least you didn't get into the polkas - a detrbeialely infections tune. You know. like "It's a small, small world, it's a world of peace, ..." or "Beer barrel polka" or "Pennsylvania Polka" (remember GroundHog Day with Bill Murray?). Or the Chicken Dance (written to amuse tourist in Germany, originally intended to portray a 'drunken duck').Or "John Jacob Jingleheimerschmidt, That's My Name Too!" (Whenever I go out, the people always shout, there goes John Jacob Jingleheimerschmidt, La, La, La).I do find, though, that some tunes can be helpful. I was helping a neighbor work cows, we had a big bull and cow that weren't interested in walking from the alley into the squeeze chute - and my singing "Aunt Jemima Pancakes, without her syrup, is like the Spring, without the Fall. In this universe, there's just one thing worse, that's no Aunt Jemima's at all." didn't work. But it took five bars of "San Antonio Rose" and the bull turned and led the cow on in. Cattle can be funny, sometimes.