CONTINUING THE CYCLE

The signs all point one way, but life persists!
And love upholds mere flesh like dreams pursued;
Pursued, like light and heat, yet come such mists--
And love accepts all fears like hopes renewed.
We live to chase our days, but work abides--
And love consumes our nights like hearts endure
The season’s ebb and flow, life’s changeless tides
That hound us as we swim from shore to sure.
Like dogs that gamely bob their paddling way
To game that Death has marked with bloody dye,
We swim against a tide that calls us prey--
And seek for what may come to find out why
The signs all point one way, but love insists
We make the most of all its turns and twists.

D. S. BIGGS
March 6, 2010