Inverted Retainers Poem by John Sensele

Give love a chance to grow
Give up jealousy that's stifling opportunities
For love to blossom, to bloom. Don't blow
Away chances to nourish love in seas of certainties.

Sieve attitudes and vicissitudes that manifest
Deformities, oddities and proclivities to strangle the love
You desire to set alight and put your best
Foot forward since no solution rains from Heaven above.

Thorns of jealousy and corns of suspicion
Plague relationships and repel partners
Who soon tire of the pitch black darkness in your mission
To stalk your soulmate who longs for more than inverted retainers.

A miniscule dose of jealousy lubricates a relationship
In need of minor repairs provided jealousy
Doesn't rock the boat from which you chip
Away at the vulnerable love in dire need of mercy.