About the Poem
I try and take an object and compare it with love. Sometimes how it is the same. Sometimes how it is different. The object doesn't matter as much as the relationship they share.
This one involves an ox.
Love Of An Ox |
| by Brian Hickman |
| big and dumb, tried and true not sure of the course to take or the decisions to make puts his head down and plows forward making mistakes, making error but making progress all the same needing, wanting to go on if for no other reason than to please to let the one who takes care of him know know that even he is capable of love love for the job that love is love for the act of carrying on love for the act of finishing. if not him, then who love is a beast, but not one of burden if the yolks are to keep and restrain if they are not a bond of love then shed them, find a new one a new beast that isn't a burden to walk through life with love |
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