' Love was’

&& ‘love will be’ if
(I, ever-faithful),
do wait, patiently;

“negative”, “wordly”, values disappear,

@last, ‘love triumphs’;

join (hands, checkbooks),
pop champagne-corks,

“live happily-ever-after”.

“not so” ?
tell me: “I listen”,
(do-not-hear);

push (rush, hurry) && die lonely if not-careful;

“I will wait.”

&wait

# Sharon Hopkins, June 26th, 1991
# rush (a perl poem)