The Mind Hears, the Heart Listens
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Yes, we
should probably do what our heads tell us more often, but it’s invariably so
much more fun (and human) to follow our hearts. True, it can be a risky
business but some risks are always worth taking, and love is one of them.
Love
comes in all shapes and sizes, expresses itself in countless ways, probably has a finer grasp of what life (and time?)
is really all about than even the most learned
mind will ever know.
This poem
is a villanelle.
THE MIND
HEARS, THE HEART LISTENS
Where Time
has its way
with each
of us,
Love will
always have a say
Eyes
shut, cold clay,
no sweet
caress
where Time
has its way
Fear not
the close of day
(waking
to emptiness?)
Love will
always have a say
Duty,
too, its passion may
well
speak up for us
where Time
has its way
On dark
secrets kept at bay
(haunts
of fear and lies)
Love will
always have a say
Eternity but
a breath away
from a
cynic’s kiss;
where Time
has its way,
Love will
always have a say
Copyright R. N. Taber 2005; 2012
[Note: An
earlier version of this poem appears in A Feeling For The Quickness Of
Time by R. N. Taber,
Assembly Books, 2005.]
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