Love is hard          and         Love is easy,

    Hard as stones        but         Balmy, breezy.

    Love is shivers,                  Love is heat,

    Aches and groans,     yet         Soft and sweet.

    Oxymoron,                         Contradiction,

    Sometime fact,        yet         Often fiction.

    Bright with virtue,               Dark with lust,

    New with promise,                 Old with dust,

    Creeps in slowly,                 Leaps pell-mell,

    Love is Heaven,                   Love is Hell.





Copyright © 1992 by Gerry Edwards