Love Rises in the Body and Stalls in the Heart

327 Infantry Veterans - Vietnam War

327th Infantry

Love Rises in the Body and Stalls in the Heart

by Chapman Burgess

Love comes in to the body slowly like water
And floods first in the low places.
When I was a baby it made me kick my feet.
By the time I was a toddler I could feel it in
My calves as I climbed up on every thing.
In grade school it arrived in my thighs one day
When my legs were sudden wings.
I was only 12 when it came up into my groin.
At 19 it had risen higher yet
And how swelled it filled my heart.
But it was a long time after that until I met you
When it reached my head, the final part.

————————————————————–CEBurgess (2006)

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