Back to the Basics of Love

My sisters and I ,way back when; sigh...those days were as 'basic' as could be! Childhood...days of long, slow-cooked oatmeal breakfasts and forever-afternoons.

PAD Challenge day 21: write a 'back to basic' poem

Let’s get back to the basics of love

Slip out of haste’s sterilized gloves

And re-familiarize our touch

With words like ‘long’ and ‘slow’ and such

Distraction fits in pockets now

A world at restless finger-tips

Robbing romancers of a long, slow

Afternoon intent on eyes and lips

Perhaps, if I were two by two

And on my forehead was a screen

You’d touch me like you used to do

Instead of only ‘in-between’

Darling, lets get back to love’s bare facts

Seems these days way too much distracts

…the devil laughs in dings and beeps

Technology gathers its sheep

Love craves long, blue-eyed afternoons

Of slow-dances to paradise

Before we sacrificed heart-tunes

To curs-ed gadgets pocket-size

We trip over love-miracles

And God-granted ability

Of have-hold, live-laugh, touch and taste

Forgetting to just, simply. Be.

© Janet Martin

 For the most part hubby and I are still pretty old-fashioned, but I look at the next generation (yep, middle-age proof in its full glory;) and worry about how relationships will survive this gadget-age...