Loving a Difficult Love for a Long Time

Yep, bedtime.


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Loving a Difficult Love for a Long Time
Our fingers in the dike holding back the torrent
Where they’ve always been in sunburn and freeze.
One could say it’s a great commission or a slavery
Like Christ’s disciples, depending on perspective.
But I’ve come to see the dike’s beauty and its need.
It gives us a calling, we hold it together with heart.
We need each other in sunburn and freeze.
We are both cracked in various places.
We age it seems and try to grow wise.
If either withdraws we both die.
That will come one day
In sunburn or freeze.
It’s ok.