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A Simple, Down To Earth Love

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Our love is not ballads 
And love notes and sonnets: 
Our love is what we choose every morning
When you kiss my forehead before work. 
Our love is an endless array of dinners 
I make for you, waiting for you to come home
From work. Or the meals we make together. 
We indulge in this lovely 
Domesticity with each other. 
Feeding each other, body, mind and soul.
Love is what we choose
To make of it,
And I choose to love you
Every day.

Radha Kistler 
Author of Heartalytics series–
Matchmaker Musings 

Art by Kyuin Shim

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