Glenn Johnson’s most recent poem to appear here was “Yes You” (June 2017)

Love’s Hearth
By Glenn Johnson

Stair cases sagging
elevators dangling
doors crooked
absent knobs
rooms ancient
future’s longings stored

No matter up down
now
just said done

Your room
tending hearth
ashes stirred
embers glow rise
matters life decide
above the smoke
where heart can breathe
love lingers
locked
in place forgotten

Heart naked heart
Lost key chain I
found exactly where wanted

beyond widowhood
beyond grief’s mirage
beyond hope’s famine
long life’s wisdom
experience’s nurture
Unlocked
threshold crossed
Heart’s windows open
revealing
vision unexpected

Our room
love’s hearth tended
ashes stirred
embers glow rise
matters life decide
above the smoke
in place forgotten
where heart can breathe
rekindled
love awakens
into each other’s arms arrive