False Perception

love, I fear, is a false perception

of the love we are really supposed

to feel when we say we are in love;

yet, so many of us confuse that love

for a love that revolves around

sex or the love of self or the love

that resides in companionship which

is not the love of which poets write

nor is it the love that young lovers feel

after they spend all night in each others arms;

yet, that love manifests itself differently

as we age and it ages as the two do

do always coincide in their development,

so we are stuck with a false perception

of love that steers us into a grave

thinking we have been love all our lives.

19May16