Toward the Full of It

We persist

And rearrange

And change our minds

Because

We didn’t know

Those years ago

How long and strong

Love was

So, for love’s sake

Of give and take

We break beneath

Its kiss

As, still we learn

The strange return

Of how patient

Love is

Heave-ho, ahoy,

To find love’s joy

We dare not

Dare to quit

But ever press

With tenderness

Toward the full

Of it

© Janet Martin