Love in The New Year

Love,
you can walk away from it
just for a little while,
then it calls out quietly in the day,
leading you down
a path you know, or don't know, or know too well,
it knocks you off your feet when you think nothing can,
and then you imagine it,
night becomes morning,
and morning becomes night,
it is so sudden sometimes
comes on so fast, and you wonder again will it last,
will it change you, 
but it does, with the lover's truth and with the lover's lie,
secrets, whispers deep within the aching soul, separating
you from life, and it changes you, and always has,
in history
in books
in wars
in streets
in philosphy looking for more
in every metaphor
in every corner where love finds a soul,
resisting it is useless
resisting it is pointless
it changes, it feeds, and it grows.
love is the truth, love knows. 
By Melinda Cochrane 
copyright 2022
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