-- Love’s Sunrise --

John Herlihy

Love’s sunrise began with the first dawn,

As earth turns, in spring meadow put upon.

In mating of the species, we find true love;

Humanity perpetuated by example of a dove.

They say that love makes the world go round;

The human heart lost until in love it be found.

Mr. Spock’s fair world boasted of no emotion;

His mind reasoned, his heart had no devotion.

Life asks of a sudden when you are not looking;

We touch, be touched in return, found in loving.

We begin to feel what is already there anyhow;

We grow in the beauty of the emotion somehow.

Until we do arrive at the moment of love’s sunset; 

In having loved, we need not feel any true regret.

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(c) John Herlihy Friday 31 August 2019