Reflecting On Love. Poem by Fay Slimm

So deep these words, so utterly complete.
Devotion - Commitment - Affection - mean
Nearly the same, a quiet resolve, meeting
Requirement for love is more than it seems.

A caring, compassionate outlook, warming
The soul makes for whole love. Such devotion
To showing tenderness weathers each storm
Of troublesome doubt. Without it all motion
Towards displaying love ceases. We fail
Entirely in closeness. Dishonour denies
Love if devotion only to Self prevails.
With lukewarm affection preciousness dies.

Therefore reflecting on love, uppermost
Time and again comes devotion, with truth
Alongside. Riding these two we can boast
Then of discerning what's missing in youth.

Experience teaches that conquering time
Needs devotion, then our poem will rhyme.