Love's Equation Poem by Robert Merrett

Provide me love built in honest hearts,
Which grows not in concealed fear,
Or is lost when thy faith departs,
But forged in gentle kindness to appear,

Silent, as nature's yearning for herself,
Not for possession, for dormant freedom released.
Treasured beyond jewels or earthly wealth,
Tempered as steel, with strength instilled.

Tis beauty and truth in perpetual tandem,
Whose benevolent seeds settle on red hills,
Your dreams sown amongst bark and gum,
Softly grown, the deceptive force against ills.

Year's blind navigator cannot distort its course,
While the countless finite stars disperse,
True love surpasses these. O inherent force,
That infinite binds these two, and the Universe.