It's National Poetry Month!

So I'm gonna try doing 30 in 30. I'll write daily, although I may not post them all. Just depends on how much I feel like breathing that day *wink* So I owe you two already! Here's one...tried a new form: the Sestina. It flowed a lil more easily than I thought it would. For now, it's untitled.

Sestina #1

I wasn’t told that my heart would get freezer burn

While waiting in line with your other obligations.

I should have vacuum sealed it before surrendering

To more broken promises that I’d never heard before.

But it happens; another casualty of unbalanced Love.

Love is one of the greatest gifts that is constantly rejected.

It’s not like I have never been or will never again be rejected.

But coming from someone you Love, it tends to burn.

Just a bit more than from someone whom you never offered Love.

The sting of being waitlisted with a string of obligations

While watching your Love’s future move on without you like before

The two of you were one, forces a sort of surrendering.

When emotions flash, the last thing you want to be is surrendering.

Hurt turns to anger and you lash out, making everyone feel rejected.

When inside it’s all a trembling mess yearning for before.

When the feeling was a refreshing wave, instead of a searing burn.

But this is the process once relationships become obligations.

The relationship is no longer Love.

It is a daunting task, to maintain Immortal Love.

Some fight it tooth and nail, while others find peace in surrendering.

Too many times it is embraced, just to be set aside later with other obligations.

Putting it on a list to be checked off daily makes it feel rejected.

Once that happens, go ahead and set it on fire, let it burn.

And truth be told; it will never be what it was before.

It can be better than or worse than, but never just like before.

That is the pure nature of Immortal Love.

It changes and develops fires and chills; both causing a burn.

But the scars are testimony to your surrendering.

Sometimes it’s worth risking being rejected,

Giving in to the fight against becoming one of the obligations.

However, some situations still shove you into the list of obligations.

If you don’t resist the grouping, you lose what you had before.

Then comes the resentment associated with being rejected.

Once it enters the scene, it can choke out most Love.

At that moment, you may find yourself surrendering

To Immortal Love and it’s eternal burn.

If you become one of the rejected and wind up on the list of obligations,

And you no longer feel the burn that was once there before,

Just remember that Immortal Love requires a lot of surrendering.

Copyright ©2011 Natasha Guy