Superb use of evolving repetition in the first line of each stanza Rula. Although this is obviously a very personal poem, I think we can all still relate to it in our own way. Cheers!

Rula, how you take these moments and weave them into magic and preciousness....it makes my heart weep with gratitude that there is love in the world that works.

A beautiful and intense telling of the changes and realizations of true love - perennial indeed!

an evolution of emotions and a triumph of love, beautiful job ;)

‘But the trust, the hope and the love prevailed’, this line, repeating time and again, emphasizes what’s there to prevail and what’s impermanent. It stresses the fact that the love isn’t just a mood or a temporary state of mind, affected by some external stimuli, but part of a greater understanding of self and other. Fear, regret, pain, sadness, frustration, shame, are temporary in nature subject to our moods, subject to the negative charge of the impressions we gather in a given point of time, depending on the quality of association, where as, LOVE, not just emotional, not just physical or mechanical or intellectual, but a Love, which grows with the growth of the lovers, which emanates from the very being, which is a CONSCIOUS LOVE, part of an ever lasting UNDERSTNDING, compelling the lovers to feel duty bound, compelling the lovers to find their love in the mutual growth of their beings. I am sorry to say Rula Shin that I have nothing to add of my own because you have said it all in this philosophy of love expressed with a tinge ( well, not just a tinge but as a main ingredient ) of emotional energy. Yes, the LOVE shall prevail if love isn’t just a MOOD despite sinking heart, swelling throat, and shattering egos, ‘Tearing down our mind-made walls of fear Revisiting our past moment of realization’ And yes, the crux of the whole beauty of love is that ‘There wasn't any moment of resurrection Since there wasn't any moment of death There are no conflicting lovers When perennially lovers exist as LOVE’ Yes, I repeat, there isn’t any moment of doubt when perennially lovers exist as LOVE.This is what LOVE is. A CONSCIOUS LOVE.

Well done Rula, yes a great love does prevail...Charlie

Oh, I absolutely love the growth that this poem exhibits

fabulous beautiful message, Rula. From the comments, looks like it should be Poem of The Year, not just the Day! Ciao.

An excellent read...well done and congrats on your POTD, a well derseved one here

Rula, I meant to comment on the poem the other day when I also meant congratulate you for POTD, I just couldn't think of anything brilliant to say, plus, so many others said what I would have. Yet, what I see in this poem is the narrator coming to grips with a formerly unfaced reality - walking through deep emotional pain and ugliness within and without. It's like being in a house of mirrors, so that no matter which way one turns, there is no escaping the self-image. Although it appears to be a dangerous place, safety is actually present all the time, since the process involves self-discovery. When the narrator finally gets to the core of self, whether it is him/herself or another person, the discovery process doesn't end, but only becomes a beginning. I see so much of many things I've been through in this poem, but then again, it can be applied to countless situations (as I believe someone mentioned). Congratulations, even if it is late. ;-)
~Chelle~