For a Moment, You Feel LIke a Child

For a moment, you feel like a child,
eyes of wonder, taking in every detail
of something as simple and as complicated as a leaf.
Each vein a conduit for food and water, a pathway,
everything leading to green.

For a moment, you feel like a child,
simple hearted, taking in every detail
of something as simple and complicated as love,
each interaction a conduit for bliss and pain, a pathway,
everything tender, so close to perfection
or cataclysm.

About this poem

Love, something that should be so simple, is too often complicated. It can be blisss. Too often the word is used for things that are not love at all. And the line is so very fine.

Inspired by happenings all around me.

Tom