Forever Meant Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

A forever meant.
With an intent,
Never to remain or stay that way.

No one should owe anyone.
Or any 'thing' a forever to give it.
Even love to have for a rusting car,
Can not be polished with wax.
To return to its glitz to glow.
Stopping traffic to have eyes pop.

A forever meant to stay that way,
May be applied to the Universe.
As romantics wonder which came first.
A sudden bang.
Or a climax resulting,
In a slow evolving birth.

And then again,
With imagination set free like wild horses.
Who are the 'our' that God is quoted to have said.
When He mentioned,
'Let us make man in 'our' image'.
What is that image?
And was that consensual.
Owed to vow with it believed forever.
With no pre-nups.
Or thoughts of this course taken,
Could end in divorce.
To then give some 'thing' or someone else,
The same interest to claim a forever meant.
With an intent mentioned.
But never to stay committed.
Although when a forever meant,
To have heard it spoken.
Was only said to rehearse the practice,
Of a repetition.
Knowing that a forever,
No one but God knows to have experienced.