Whether We Want Or Not Poem by Ludolf Dauphin

yesterday,
in the noon hour
I bid love adieu

Only for love
to have found me
Once more

ready, I was not
nor did I hope to love so soon
until the night falls
and then you came

in that blink of an eye
that skipping of the heart
I could have missed you

instead, I found comfort
in your arms, like moonlight
when it is nights

at last, love has atoned for its sin
causing despair, in days gone
vertigo crept into my heart

love, an open flame of danger
to one and all
no more or less

always do as she pleases
cannot escape her reach
whether we want or not