Shades of Eternity OR Love, Time Traveller

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Love is as global as it is eternal, like centuries of birdsong composed by Earth Mother and meant to be enjoyed by everyone; no more or less so for its acolytes being gay or straight.

Lovemaking is as natural as a flower’s petals opening up to sunlight; no more or less so for its lovers being gay or straight.

If beauty is in the eye of beholder, the inner eye needs to see the clearer; no more or less so for our being gay or straight.

SHADES OF ETERNITY or LOVE, TIME TRAVELLER

Days, getting longer,
human spirit, all the stronger,

any pain worth enduring

for the sheer joy of its being

at one with Earth Mother

Eventide, lighter longer

human love, all the stronger

no pain (quite) eclipsing 

its eternal joy for (still) being 

at one with Earth Mother

World, no passing stranger

to seeing its peoples in danger,
left looking back in anger

for any straying from our being
at one with Earth Mother

Days, now getting shorter;

human heartbeats all the fainter,

though any sweet dreams

no less sweeter for our being

at one with Earth Mother

World, darkening sooner,

its lovers left hurting all the longer,
yet hearts beating the stronger
for celebrating their forever being

at one with Earth Mother

Come a world darker or lighter,

we are one with Earth Mother

Copyright R. N. Taber 2010; 2014

[Note: An earlier version of this poem  appears in On The Battlefields Of Love by R. N. Taber, Assembly Books, 2010.]