Our love has chosen its appropriate gesture <br />Which when viewed in the midst of all the gestures <br />It didn't choose seems almost insignificant. <br /> <br />The gesture our love has chosen is appropriate <br />We both agree not that we have any choice but <br />Amidst all those others does seem insignificant. <br /> <br />Is it incumbent on us thus to therefore obliterate <br />All of the gestures except this insignificant one <br />Chosen by our love for its own no doubt reasons. <br /> <br />It is up to us to obliterate all other gestures <br />Though they cluster round thick as presentations <br />Of war and sacrifice in a gradeschool classroom. <br /> <br />Use of our love's chosen gesture for the obliteration <br />Of all those foreign gestures is forbidden however <br />We must find something else to erase them with. <br /> <br />Our love has chosen its appropriate gesture <br />Which when viewed in the absence of all other gestures <br />Seems to spell the opposite of insignificant.<br /><br />Bill Knott<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lesson-2/
