Can Saints Really Fly? Poem by Shirley Harrison

Oh Heart oh Heart be loved?

are you shy?

do you hide?

love is harder to forget than to recall

more seldom than a tear is wet

less common than a moonlit night?

oh Heart oh Heart be loved?

are you shy?

do you hide?

there are many ways to write about love

and much has been written by the greats

but isn't it so damn poetic?

the very words that really are

the be all or end all of love

are simply the words, we don't say yet we mean?

&

the things we say yet are untrue?

leaving the very concept of love

up in the air.