A STORY. 39. IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME

It’s been a long time since you really thought about love. The three poems have stirred something in you. Easy in the Morning Light. Ready to Settle. The Warmth Within.

You think back to Is Love Obsolete:
https://elsasemporium.com/is-love-obsolete.html

Is love obsolete?
Misplaced, more likely
Misguided, untended
Unwatered, unmended
Misplaced and derided 
Untended, unkempt 
Like an old drunk 

Whoever would have thought 
at seventeen
of love like an old drunk
untended, unkempt
instead of a god to revere

You can remember back to a time like that, when you felt love was like a god to revere. And now?

Suddenly cats come to mind. You think of how they lie in the sun for hours, oozing contentment. Well, you’re not a cat, doing nothing and oozing contentment. Maybe that’s what’s happened with you. Part of it, anyway.

Still, the poems have stirred something in you.

You’re coming to the old bookshop. You have no idea what you’ll look at next.

Words go through your mind.

I'm ready
            like flannel bedding
            that keeps me
            warm as toast

         Leave me in this eddy
                in this idle tidal pool
         I need your steady loving
                as time flows by

         And I want you to know
         I am ready
                        steady
            to settle
            not to settle for
            to settle with
                      down
                      into
                        a steady
                              loving
                                    with you

You know where the words are from. Ready to Settle.
https://elsasemporium.com/ready-to-settle.html

And yourself?

What are you ready for?

To be continued …
A STORY. 40. A TIDAL WAVE WITH A TYPHOON ON THE SIDE
https://elsaiselsa.substack.com/p/a-story-40-tidal-wave

A STORY. ALL THE CHAPTERS ... UP TO NOW
https://elsaiselsa.substack.com/p/a-story-table-of-contents-up-to-now

Posted April 23, 2024