Love’s Heaven Ladder Poem by Lionel Woo

Love’s Heaven Ladder



Chisel keeps craking on rock which sounds a song,
Days, months, years, and decades gone,
A sweaty man works on,
Up cloud a ghat forms.
Like a ladder hung over the escarpment,
Up six thousand steps Paradise would be sawn.

From hence my luve can leave and get home,
Freely, happily, safely even after storms.
Oh, my dear dear luve,
No longer worry when thee go alone.
Cause i have wiped all lichen off stones.

My luve, always the bonnie bride in sedan that got through,
Gracely, smilingly, bumping along village's brook.
A glance makes me stuck and still stood.
Her phraseless fingers never forget as I could,
Keeping me enchanted while half century flew.

Oh, My dear, your hand that holds mine is so strong,
We stroll the path that goes up on and on,
So high, so long and extend to the Heaven.
In case than me you foregone,
Must waiting for me at gate of Heaven while singing the daily song.

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It's a beautiful love story call “Love’s Heaven Ladder”. in 1950s, a young man fell in love with a widow who was ten years older than him. in order to shun the civil fears and gossip, they hid into deep mountains and lived a reclusive life. For his wife could go safely downhill, the young man, Liu Guojiang, took decades to build a six thousand steps ghat on the cliff by his hand.Almost half century later, in 2001, an expedition accidently found the couple in the primitive forest and revealed the story. i am deeply touched and write the following poem, please help modifying it.
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