'How many carats should I weigh this love?'
This love
can’t walk on water
won’t fit your finger
doesn’t melt pain
promises nothing
rescues no-one.
This love
sees with the heart
walks through walls
gives the invisible
a dream that grows
real roses.
From my recent chapbook, Letters to a Dead Man,* released
2023. (This piece first written 1982.)
For Friday Writings #130 at Poets and Storytellers United,
Magaly invites us to be inspired by a quotation from a book
we've just read. I just read the delightful The Lost Bookshop
by EvieWoods, in which one character tells another that a
certain inscription in French 'means that one sees clearly only
with the heart.' He then notes that it is a quotation from
Antoine de Saint-Exupery – which is where I first came across
it, in the book The Little Prince, translated as: 'It is only with
the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible
to the eye' (the original source of my allusion in this poem –
which, obviously, was not written for the present prompt, but
fits it serendipitously).
*Letters to a Dead Man is obtainable via my website
www.nissen-wade.com