SALISBURY LANDSCAPES POEM 10

The storm continues - and we all consider our lot, stuck.

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“But, instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover, life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.” Marcel Proust

Unexpected

Lay your hand on me in the usual fashion,

As if we were in love as per the plan,

My waist is for your arms and lips for your kiss,

There is nothing unexpected for you smile.

Before you speak a word my dear consider this –

That my smile is genuine for you and exists

With other sentimental persons made just for you,

For they were not unexpected as we kissed.

So a knot can be tied and a bond can be made,

A commitment is made daily as the game is played,

When two lovers tarry in the old-fashioned way,

You can be sure that they share the end of the day.

So there is nothing unexpected as we love as we do,

And our life will bear fruit as a tree is wont to do,

So all our preparation will not go to waste,

So lay your hand as planned and we will go.

“Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.” Sun Tzu