Covenant with Love

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This poem appears in my general poetry archives for May 2012.

World AIDS day may be on Dec 1st, but the HIV-AIDS virus is among us all the time and those affected need our love and support every day.

Since being tested positive for prostate cancer in 2011, mind and spirit remain active, but my body doesn't want to know any more. No worries there, though, as I always enjoy falling back on feisty  memories and letting a poet's imagination, its wonders to perform...

COVENANT WITH LOVE 

Though saddened hearts would break

and HIV-AIDS a rising toll,

love, with loss, its peace shall make

See ripples spread for humanity's sake

come sun, moon, heart and soul

though saddened hearts would break

Where disease, fate, or age lives take,

anger, grief, like burning coal,

love, with loss, its peace shall make

See a light from dark, its prison break,

let better times roll…

though saddened hearts would break

Though we live for living’s own sake,

no matter affairs of the soul,

love, with loss, its peace shall make

Let the world’s worst its own forsake

and healing be our goal;

though saddened hearts would break,

love, with loss, its peace shall make

Copyright R . N. Taber 2007

[Note: An earlier version of this poem appears in Accomplices to Illusion by R. N. Taber, Assembly Books, 2007.]