Spring to summer
Sights murmur
Mystify the lingering pain
Of lovers
And the unloved alike
Soaked in the memory
Of last year’s flowers
And the lost souls.
A moment raging for cherished rebirth
Of love, time, and youth,
A song for the crazy lovebirds
Oscillating
Between
Their feverish beings
And Nature’s rioting rhythms.
Everywhere
Love surges –
Embraces sapiosexual pulls,
The Internet-induced
Platonic thoughts.
The plants steal the exotic moods
Of the animal kingdom.
Puppies wag their tails
On the temperate sidewalks
Like the freshly bathed trees
Caressing my terrace.
Love boils forever
Tides over
Pitch after pitch
Thought after thought
Oozing like cataracts
That incense lovers
Swing with kids
Wrap the grey-haired
In a nostalgic trance
Even as the middle-aged bend over –
Hamstrung in pursuit
Of their goals –
And those on the margins
Still struggle for a voice
In my unequal city.
