Race To Bless Poem by John Sensele

Race to place hopes beyond braces, faces and traces of confidence
Buoyed, deployed, enjoyed beyond the purview of human interaction
Experienced, sensed and commenced on the throe of rows of prudence
Embraced, stressed and buttressed in the wake of actual affection.

Race to place hopes beyond braces, faces and traces of solace
Sampled and stapled on the niche in which love weeps
For want of care in settings which lace and displace
Slots that tot hope in lots and plots in which love quips and equips.

Race to place hopes beyond braces, faces and traces of balance
Struck in a relationship in need of repair
Felt to melt in the face of vagaries of chance whose nonchalance
Peeks, sticks and kicks at opportunities to mend a tenderness tear.

Race to place hopes beyond braces, faces and traces of influence
Exerted and vetted to avert the skirt that scoffs at the palaver
Communities and coteries convene at the confluence
Of love and a glove that denies John the presence of his lover.