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 a’jails 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. 

The illustration was identified as a vintage photograph

of the Hollywood actress Bette Davis.  (?)