The Borrowers OR Human Nature, a Mind of its Own
Today's poem first appeared on my gay-interest blog in 2013.
While feedback suggests relatively few reader dip into both blogs, I would suggest that human nature is such that there are closer parallels between them than some of us might care to concede. Love, though, is above all that and male (and female) bonding is - as it has always been, and always will be - a fact of life. Yes, there are certain lines drawn in sand - just as there have always been and always will be; whether or not close friends choose to cross them is - yes, as it has always been and always will be, down to human nature.
I was in love with a close friend for a long time. He is gay too, but has never felt the same way. Even so, he has always loved me as a friend and I’ve had to be content with that.
In time, I learned how to let passion go and settled down to enjoy a platonic love we lend and borrow by way of supporting each other all the time.
THE BORROWERS or HUMAN NATURE, A MIND OF ITS OWN
You lay your head on
You are a treasure my heart
True, your love comes not
Copyright R. N. Taber 2005; 2020
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