Poems from a Friend - This Desperate Threshhold

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At this desperate threshold,
look how white my knuckles –

I can’t face wine,
not like I used to.
Not anymore.

Oh,
my most admired romancer
of the most strange and terrible nights,
where will I turn
if not to your sopping invitation?

You have pulled me too far apart,
at my own request –
I could not ask you
to pull me back together.

I have sought out your freeing waters,
often as I could,
for more than a century,
but I have grown weary
of raising your implements to my lips.

Understand,
I have loved you more
than I have loved my women.

At this desperate threshold,
my friend,
look how white my knuckles,
but look how clear my eyes.

♥ “Who, being loved, is poor?” – Oscar Wilde
♥ “Where there is love there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi
♥ "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." – Dr. Seuss
♥ “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” – Mignon McLaughlin
♥ “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
♥ “There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.” – Martin Luther
♥ “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau
♥ “When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.” – Albert Einstein
♥ "Show me the way, take me to love." – Anu Malik, Bride & Prejudice
♥ “Live Your Truth, Be Your Being & Create Your Self” – Deidre Madsen