My Love Is In a Box

April 16, 2021

I give you love so free and easy, no strings attached, no price to pay. Love which is not returned, love which is cast aside, abandoned without cause, I still have love to give. It may be time to let you go, the outlook for posterity is bleak, any hope I carry is constantly in flux. The love you’ve said you have for me, feels flawed and misguided. When I think of you my body fills with love, I am love, and I’m here, now, today and every day, alone now in my consciousness, not hoping,expecting nothing, I put my love into a box, the dreams I had for you are yours now, and yours alone. So, I put my box up on a shelf, perhaps one day I will take a chance, offer my love again, and live my life once more.

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Terrance Longtin

I'm 62 years old, I am married, I am an artist, I do abstract paintings and sell them locally and on Etsy in Terrance Gallery. I have had 23 major surgeries on my legs, recently Nov 9, Jan 11 and the next one in April. So I have a full leg cast from Nov 9 thru June 28 so I wrote a children's book which has been published and released to the public March 13, 2021. Also I kind of got interested in writing free verse poetry and I have written five so far. I love my cats and my 14 yr old grandson. I'm married to the absolute best wife ever! One of my tattoos is on my forearm, it's from a free verse poem by Walt Whitman called "Song of the Open Road" it's 15 pages long but well worth reading. My tattoo says "all seems beautiful to me" and there's a Chinese symbol for beauty at the end. Walt Whitman is known as the father of free verse poetry. I actually wrote a free verse poem about myself, which I really like.

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