love is just another device

free verse, black mountain school style

somewhere along the way

I stopped doing it with my heart.

I still surprise you with

vegetarian cuisine,

I’m still an attentive lover,

but why do we do these things?

for our happiness?

or to prevent your sadness?

the heart knows what it wants,

and bears no burden in getting it,

but its memory is short

and when it forgets

it’s the mind

that is left with the daily maintenance.