The wind dominates the air

Biting my frigid cold nose

Trees dance with their colored leaves

The long path is curved and paved

The blue birds’ song becomes rare

I sit on a bench not froze

A girl holds her milky knees

A boy sits by as though pined

 

The pair of young lovers sit

across from me and mumble

My coffee is boiling

The newspaper that I view

bores. Eavesdropping I admit,

I dissect the strange couple

Their energy is controlling

He lips, Because I love You

 

I mull on his utterance

Because I love You,, the words

Bear power that holds a person

In a crunch. The guess I hold

On the couple is belligerence.

The boy grasps her arm and wards,

She revokes, the scene worsens,

I myself watch it unfold.

 

The world’s eye is focused to

Them. I am all enraptured.

They quibble at each other,

His gaunt hand holds her arm still.

He whines, Because I love You.

She is a bird bein’ captured.

Balanced against her lover

She runs to him as if ill.

 

Love is an attachment. She’s

Chained by manipulation,

Grasped by Because I love You,

Blinded by her love for love.

Love is not a foul disease,

But an absolute emotion.

It keeps one bounded by glue.

It is peaceful like a dove.

 

Love is complex, that is true,

One can make it simple though.

My cold coffee signals me

To leave the ‘lovebirds’ and carry

On. The words Because I love You,

Can be fatal, one must know

Love spurs rich naiveté

Love plants the seed of happy.

 

I stand up from my stiff chair

My thoughts follow me along with

His words, Because I love You.

The leaves once again catch me,

But the man shoots me stare

It cuts deep like a vile scythe

I don’t know love from their view.

From now on I shall drink tea.