Love Everlasting

By: Annie Barry

Love everlasting

Love is only lasting

When you put yourself last

Kinder a love within lantern light flames and

Let the wax drip to seal the cracks of your previously broken heart

Redeem your wrinkled hands and

Baptize yourself in the dead flower water you’ve yet to throw out

Find yourself within the pages of the books you never read

And learn how to stand by examining their spines

Books never slouch

Nor change the story

But they do exhibit plot twists

And characters do dynamically change

Yet some will be as static as always

No matter how much you wish they would change

Take notes from your notebook

And you’ll learn how to live