Loveknots Poem by Michael Shepherd

In the community of this website
like a girdle round the earth
(did you read that, Will?) ,
sharing the inner lives,
the hearts laid open in poetry,

I see that love

brings insecurity,
and disillusion (where there was illusion) ,
and bitterness at love that's not returned
or worse, withdrawn,
and sometimes hate,
distrust,
withdrawal from love perhaps the worst

and is there any remedy?

only a small crumb of communal solace
and a curious technological discovery (thanks to our webmaster) :

that 'my' poem quoting a friend:

'What you think you lack - give that..'
(because by giving, you find you have it
and can never lose it, lack it)

has had 100 times more hits than any other poem of mine.

I leave you with that thought.