i hold your love in my hands

i hold your love in my hands
(cupped to protect it from the elements)
always close where i can look at it
hold it and protect it
for i will never let it go - ever
it will be here with me
to show everyone i know
(for its beauty hides the calluses
and roughness of my touch)
and when i get too busy i will place
it gently in my shirt pocket
(where it is ever closer to my heart)

Reggie Flesvig

an imitation of e.e. cummings