This is another FIRST PUBLICATION of an original work of mine.

Consider it some of that "Other Stuff," the "O.S." in "N.O.S.T.R."

Greetings to any and all #poets out there... as well as anyone who has ever fallen in love...

"Of Course"

by Duncan Cary Palmer

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Of course I still love you;

It's been barely a decade,

A blip in eternity's scheme.

The moon still revolves

With one face to the earth;

The sun also rises,

And mothers give birth.

What, though not a word

Have we spoken for years?

What if there's been naught

But glum poems and tears?

The promise remains;

Houses made without hands,

Endless, safe in the heavens,

Ethereal lands...

I suspect mine I'll occupy first...

But await you, I will,

Though it be a great while;

Do days pass in the sky?

What's it like when we die?

What began mere regard

Later burgeoned as love.

Will our fellowship blossom

In heaven above?

Then, when earth is restored

By his all-cleansing fire

Will we celebrate love

In a flush of desire?

I believe that we shall,

As bright day follows night

No longer inhibited,

Freed from the plight

Of our shortness of vision,

The lack of foresight

That we've suffered below.

For earth has no sorrow

That heav'n cannot heal;

Out of temporal past,

We'll step into the real,

Consummate celebration of life.

#grownostr

#plebchain

#poetry

#love

#relationships