It feels like there may not be a whole lot new to say about love in poetry. But perhaps that’s exactly why humans can’t stop writing about it? Texas Standard listener Michael Abild requested this poem about “the creative and sustaining nature of love.”
Love (for Michael Abild)
Ah love-y love love
So many odes and songs
Can you even write
A single word
That hasn’t already been penned?
Well.
Well.
That’s kind of it, right?
You think there can’t possibly be
More
And yet every time
You dip in, and give in
There it is —
An endless supply
Helping you create something new
Every time
Giving sustenance
For that spring in your step
Every time
This well
That never runs dry
That feeds you
The more you feed it
So don’t worry —
Words will always come
Love
Will always flow.