Strum Strings Poem by John Sensele

Love distinguishes extortion from affection
Love gives, love strives to grow partners' health,
Partners' wealth, partners' devotion and emotion
Love doesn't partake in states and stakes of dearth.

Love fills voids, love avoids
Lumbering partners with sudden, sullen burdens
Love lifts up morale, love hurts no mastoids
Love demolishes sties, love sighs relief, love cajoles affection dens.

Love spins hoops, love scoops pain in loops
Of selflessness, love spreads shreds of gentleness
Love shifts low morale into high morale coops
Where her partners and gardeners scoop tenderness.

Love builds, love shields from harm
When a partner strays into a line of canine fire
Seedy enough to kill, ready enough to set alight a farm
Where a partner reeks joy and a retainer strums strings of a lyre.