“Love Pearls” explores the distinction between love that lasts and a fleeting flame. The poem portrays a passionate yet doomed love, highlighting the challenges and inevitable parting. Moreover, how love heals, steady and calm. It also emphasizes the importance of care, acceptance, and the collaborative effort required to sustain a lasting love. How it takes two to tango, symbolized by pearls threaded together in life’s intricate dance. The verses convey a message of hope and reflection, urging an open-hearted approach to love that stands the test of time.

Love pearls

Listen to “Love Pearls” read by me

Through ups and downs, highs and lows,

Fear and fright through the delight.

A love with fire of some,

Doomed from the start, not a lasting one.

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The story went as it started,

Back and forth,

Until they parted.

The story ended as flames do,

Without nurture and oxygen,

There is no flame after it’s doomed.

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They say the grass is greener on the other side,

Contrary so, the grass is green where nurture and care is served,

The grass grows and flows in its colour through sun and rain.

The grass is green where one water and care, not plucked as something to gain,

For that garden clearly ended in shame.

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The story of two parted,

But continued each to their own.

Hopefully for both, to a love of calmness and flow.

Steady and ready,

Love entered once more.

For love heals everything, deep down to our core.

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When love leaves, ask them to leave the door open.

When love arrives, stand with open arms and accept the gift as a token.

Not something to possess,

Nor to pluck and have.

Simply being and working with,

Like pearls on a tread; one by one until the jewelry is built by four hands,

It’s life’s dance.

When done, something to look back on.

A story of two, but also to each their own.

Something left behind when our life runs out of time.

/ CG Art & Poetry

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