Romantic songs, romantic poems, these are
love’s dream landscape, and its fairy-tale world
realised in romantic movies – ah!
when romantic feelings, when boy meets girl,
blossom in reality, the ideal
is beset by traits human, skin and hair,
imperfections in close-up, not least, real
talk, whose sober tones almost end it there.
Romance requires adjustment to faults,
its grounded form more about charity,
if it’s to last, a true marriage of wills;
romance then becomes the reality.
