Kevork Kalayjian: Love's Lure

It is not beauty alone


It is not the abundance of wealth


It is not shared poverty


It might grow on beaches


It might give birth to gods


It is more colorful than the rainbow


It is indescribable


It does not drip like blood


It might seem untouchable


It is definitely imaginable


But you still always wonder


If it ever exists


The warmth, the tears, the jealousy, 


The aggression, the beauty ...


LOVE




This poem appears in Love Lure: A Collection of Love Poems and Other Writings, published in New York, 2010