Poems ENDURING LOVE I learnt that mature love Depended on your willingness Your willingness to engage, deeply You taught me that mature love required patience Waiting for your readiness, our readiness Readiness to respond Readiness to give I had to choose to be meek, to be vulnerable Not knowing what would happen In order to find the powerful – You It was a conscious choice, a mature choice And it required a handing over of power To surrender to something greater To surrender to life itself A mature relatedness Long-lasting commitment Never a false surrender Never an insincere gesture Now, our joint love seeks to bring contribution to society A creation, possibilities, a larger whole But remains a paradoxical condition of strength Which only emerges through continuous yielding 10/04/2023 Admin