13. Precious Love

All this love is precious love

Subject to sudden elusion,

Prone at once to lend itself

To immediate conclusion.

Genuine though it may be

Come tomorrow it may flee.

Like clay it takes on many shapes

Yet once hardened may turn brittle.

Something long thought known so well

Can be understood so little.

It is a bitter lesson to learn

When you lose your heart at every turn.

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Written January 2009.

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