No Connection Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

If you can identify something you do
As natural as the air you breathe...
It 'is' you.
It needs not to be explain.
If something done you do,
Is not connected with love...
Unconditionally.
It will show.
Even though you will tell others,
What is done you do!
But it is not doing you...
With the love you enjoy!
It becomes a job.
A chore!
Something you believe,
Can be put off...
Ignored!
And that's not love!
That's just something you do.
Just to say you can!
And it shows.
Like everything else done,
You do...
That has no connection!
Like trying to find meaning in it...
For something you deem,
Is a worthwhile compensation!
Like a marriage that doesn't work,
And alimony is owed!
Or something significant tied to money is due!