LOVE'S TENDER FOOTSTEP



As the Thorn Protects the Rose, My Pen Preserves Our Love


LOVE’S TENDER FOOTSTEP

Listen, my Love…

Hear the tender fall of frail feet?

Listen to the innocent padding of a child’s gait,

Navigating toward mother’s respite room.

How beautiful the echo of a child’s feet,

Creaking happily down a long hallway,

Arms outstretched, heart racing,

Eager to crawl upon mother’s bed and morning cuddle.

Love offers tender footsteps in all its countless seasons.

Take the old man and woman, strolling.

Crippled, arthritic hand-in hand they meander,

Tired feet slowly shuffling on crusted cobblestones.

Gravity has long since robbed their Spring of Life

But Time not the youth of their Undying Love.

Listen!  I hear the scraping of their ancient Love’s soles,

Itching the backs of Love’s worn stone path.

And then there are Young Lover’s,

Listen!  Their feet leap and bounce.

Hear them jump and jack toward the other?

Their sensual souls are puffballs on a windy day,

They zig and zag toward Love on tip-toe clouds.

Young Love’s feet rarely kiss Mother Earth.

Such footsteps muted by Love’s blinding Passion.

Until the day Reality crushes Virginal Visions

And Love’s Truth is stripped bare.

Now, Young Lovers walk with thuds,

No longer mesmerized by the ethereal,

They face the gravitas of Love’s most enduring step,

The one that follows the other, one at a time.

Love, my Darling, has many footsteps.

Some quiet, some soft, some loud, some sad.

True Love requires we brace for all the steps,

For endurance of Love is the test of the trek.

And I, my Darling, listen always for all your footsteps….

Forever yours in the Footsteps of Love,

Cyrano!

Anderson-McKenzie



As the Thorn Protects the Rose, My Pen Preserves Our Love


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