Shining Together
They read to each other:
The weather report, the music reviews;
They talk about how ‘they’ distort,
Lie and smother the news;
Corruption and power –
And hour by hour
They shine together:
Because birds of a feather
Can flock – if they’re cool,
Drawing back when there’s bias,
When either sounds pious,
When one starts to pule
The thing is to laugh, joke or tease –
To lighten the air and put loved one at ease.
A quiet solution,
A quiet ablution.
For best become the worst of friends
If lightness ends.
That said, together is no tether –
More a test and/or reward.
If you can weather
Jokes, old stories, youth-days’ glories
Now seraphic,
Rage in traffic,
Family fetes,
Shine permeates.
While sharing the sofa watching TV,
Legs up in harmony,
He rubbing her feet and her rubbing his:
Complete.
The treatise.
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Shining Together #1 96.10.11Love Relationships;
Arlene Corwin