Crush, Bang, Wallop! Poem by Denis Martindale

Love, the tricky bit that each life has to offer...
First the rush and then the crush,
but it depends who and what we're looking for,
perhaps to complete us,
making us think love in itself is the happy ending...
or the happy beginning.

I like the tenfold increase in feelings and yet,
surely that's the attraction and the addiction of love...
Perhaps our onefold normality is deliberate,
compelling us towards that higher reality,
that sensation of everything alive and new...
that striving in pursuit of happiness...

The daredevil mentality, risking all,
yet not, indeed, for all in return...
No, that would be too much to hope for,
too much to handle all at once...

Thus love comes to us in stages,
with letdowns along the journey,
deflating our inflated hopes and dreams,
like the popping of bubbles or balloons...
Life is complicated enough without love,
but love is the only game in town...


Denis Martindale, copyright, October 2013.