Darkly wrapping ourselves in lonliness, <br />Withdrawing inside a wearisome heart <br />In no way prepares our life in readiness <br />To encounter the time when true love can start. <br />Awaiting the flowering of breathtaking <br />Emotion like love needs a heart gently warmed <br />With expectancy, softened by making <br />A habit of kindness, thus will be formed <br />No unrealistic, self-serving dreams, <br />But gentle sufficiency, growing until <br />Another, one day, awakens the gleams <br />Of a future awaiting, which will fulfil <br />Undreamed-of pleasures, real treasure of love <br />That after preparing, our hearts would approve.<br /><br />Fay Slimm<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/awaiting-love-2/
