How
You and I as We Evolved to Simply He and She
A Sonnet for Debby Karl
And
if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all
knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains,
but do not have love, I am nothing….
The
pain of living in my house succumbs
To hope that love or kindness pure prevails.
My agony hostility but numbs
As I to a new island troth my sails
Love
is patient and kind. Love rejoices in the good. Love bears all
things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all
things….
With hope thus fortified we ship ahoy
And family do rear as race the years.
New homes galore wherein we seek some joy
Do only serve to mask the phantom fears
If
I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body, so
that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
But without love no family endures
No hope, no joy, no peace I can unseal
And I through emptiness can see no cures
Save for the chance that love I still might feel.
Love
never ends. (1 Corinthians 13:1-13)
So separately they flew in search, in vain
Of what was always there but lost in pain.
13 January
2005
Flemington, NJ