Full Gravity

07 March 2026

https://poems.culturing.net/2026/03/07/full-gravity/

But love is a complex maneuver, requiring
skill and practice, not to be taken lightly,
and yet it must be taken on if one is to acquire the skill.
I know my will. I would love the one
I have found by chance, but not in some soggy romance
divined from pop art, the mass delusions of common people.
I would love with full gravity, ready to wage
the full love of the earth, as grown man and grown woman,
both up to the task and accepting its burdens,
not cowering in the corner of dreams. Dreams
do get us there, but they are the car, not the destination.
They carry us forward into ourselves.