Love Trials

I tried to live within the now,

And free my heart from bondage.

I tried learning love know-how,

But tides helped not the salvage.

I struggled with mixed emotions,

And oft prayed for a ray of hope;

Looking for love with devotion,

I learned to persevere and cope.

I sensed life’s sorrowful pitfalls,

The heart with your love enflame;

I felt a brush of reviving of souls,

Penetrating deep with due claim.

I huddled with your rare beauty,

Divine whirl of the artist palette;

I grappled in awe, homage and duty,

Dwelling the heart not the wallet.

You consoled my eyes full of tears,

Through life’s shades and shadows;

You guided me gently over the years,

To your love sweet green meadows.

The great masters of creative art,

In your praise failed and stumbled;

Lest they’ve lived the broken heart,

Of a lover, in your beauty, be humbled.