HARDSHIP – 22 April 2006

 

"Love will find a way".  If He doesn't,

Is not intense enough, is but a whim,

A shadow, a mistake, a sham, a dream,

A dead-end, alas, something we mustn't

 

Follow for long, except when the lust

Sets us together, man and wife,

And then enjails the both of us for life,

In that folly law pretends to be just.

 

However, if you really for me cared,

You'd curtail your absences; and shared

Some of your scarce, precious time with me.

 

It could be hard, but if you felt the urge,

All else you would, with no regard, purge,

Offset by pleasure, as hard as it might be.

ON ILLUSTRATION THE  MIDDLE-AGED

ANGELA LANSBURY