The Best Left Poem by Sara Militello
The Best Left
The Best Left
Time alone allows for reflection
upon events that flee too fast:
Recalling the best of my life
even the hardships and strife
it comes to mind all that was
and is no more...
The love I have for one so dear
is true as truth can fly.
At first desire burned bright
as the brightest star in the sky.
Yet - how often love's fire, banked
is treated with poignant entreaties galore
fragile feelings the ashes
of a flaming passion spent.
Time is a friend that sustains love ~
tender acceptance soothing where
a treasured love still lingers there
adjusted to friendship-laced passion
double-linked with gentle respect
the best left glowing before
a warming hearth on a cold damp night
for love to spark into embers bright.
January 1990
It's now December 31, at 6: 24am and my thoughts drifted to some of the poems I've written through the years. One can trace my growth in understanding by the dates I give for the moment a combination of my thought processes became a concrete poem.
I tweak them now and then to make them reflect the emotion I tried to capture initially. I always remember what emotion or wish or even the reality of my experience up to that point, sparked the poem in the first place. Suffice it to say that even a thought or wish for a certain capacity either already developed on in process of development in our nature is the seed of fulfillment of that wish...
I think we often forget how important is a deep friendship between two who have fallen in love...I firmly believe a deep friendship is the ingredient that binds and sustains long married or committed couples as they grow old together.
It's in the interest of whoever may encounter this poem of mine, I share it to suggest that it's never too late to resurrect the love one has felt for someone dear to them, even if the parting was not totally satisfying at the time. Love does not have to die. It can warm the heart at any distant time frame; through recollection of the good times...
it's a fact of life that most relationships lack that depth...congrats
Yes it is...and thanks for your comment. I never dreamed this poem would have such an impact.
if you read some of my 216 poems you will find no time to sleep you will only cry tears of joy why had you not read me poet poet me the BEST WILL then come O poet- tree from the pen have ye just try tears of joy will flow many say so you must find it so also.....
What deep wisdom in these lines Sara. How lonely must a marriage be without friendship? Marvelous poem and well deserving of poem of the day
a wonderful poem of love's true worth? to me it will always remain priceless! ............superbly written.
Euphemistically inscribed. Beautiful poem on love and friendship.Thanks for sharing and congratulation for the poem of the day.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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Wonderful poem, Sara, full of much truth. Congratulations on having it selected as poem of the day!
Thanks for your comment Kim. I have been trying to return to this site to thank you but I have a devil of a time returning to places I want to go once I leave them.