“Love's Long-Lasting Look for Today”

“Love's Long-Lasting Look for Today”

Slick covers say youthful looks

And sleek bodies are to be worshiped

In fleeting moments of

Sage less, ever-severing

Meeting of the sexes.

All are tempted to buy stock

In glossy, commercial fiction

Yielding no dividend,

No deposit, no return

Reality of dead ends.

Look around with eyes made

To see beyond what is seen

To find love springing up

From years of plowing, planting,

Harvesting the fruit from lives clinging to REALITY.

So many years are such a short time.

No time wasted on tomorrow

Or yesterday

When all you have is today—

Now-Time is time to lavish love.

Love’s beauty never fades,

For when it was first seen,

It was seen—Beautiful--

Ageless beauty,

Ever-present Loveliness.

“Friend and Companion,

Wealth untold is heaped

Upon this union when there is

None to lend or

To spend.”

Time is with these Dear Ones

For they have loved more

Today than Yesterday

And Todays always build

Better Tomorrows.

RED©2/27/1985