The One Thing No One Can Do...

For today’s prompt, we’re once again doing two-for-Tuesday prompt. So pick one, combine both prompts into one poem, or write two (or more) different poems. Here are the prompts:

• Write a love poem.
• Write an anti-love poem. 

 

The one thing that no one can do

In spite of best intentions

Where modern-day tries to outdo

The old with new inventions

...where all our new-improved doodads

And all our forward thinking

And all our self-bettering fads

That change while we are blinking

Cannot, for all the google-sites

And endless information

And formulas and gigabytes

And scientific-ation

…for all that we have come to prove

One thing evades our merit

No one can force a heart to love

Ah, who of us can bear it?

© Janet Martin