A Promise Of Solace And Love Poem by Maurice Harris

Perhaps you feel anger, perhaps you feel grief;
Perhaps you are in need of solace, to provide relief
From the pain and doubt that you so oft feel;
Whatever the tribulations your heart may not conceal,
My strength may be your aegis, from worry and discontent-
From a heart that is commodious, and shan't relent
From the want to make all your heartache disappear.
Should you ever wonder where safety is-it is here,
With me, your everlasting love, your friend for all seasons.
No matter of time or distance, you'll e'er have mine allegiance,
Both of mind and of heart, whenever you may need it.
My love for you is a given, I do hereby concede it.
I wish all of your pain riddance, and only joy in its stead;
My actions shall be my proof, not merely what I have said:
For words are hollow, only actions can truly bear outcome.
Lean upon my broad shoulders when life is too cumbersome.
You were chosen, not by me, but for me, by a Greater Power,
Because I needed all that, which upon me you also shower:
Love, compassion, understanding, and companionship;
We are the recompense for each other's painful abandonment
By those who were supposed to love us the most, yet did not.
We are each the other, for which we have both so long sought.
Allow me the honor of allaying your burden, as you do mine;
Allow me to uplift your spirit in ways we are yet to define;
Our dysfunctional duality has become a wondrous unity,
Which serves as our once-broken heart's immunity
To the pain and tumult of the past, and allows our futurity
To continue to erase the anguish and provide a purity
Of purpose for a shared life that has been predestined-
All the result of an unceasing love, that we never questioned.


-Maurice Harris,7 November 2014