secret life *

(or “holding hands”)

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At times it seems the secret* is disclosed

to those who are naive & immature,

in double measure - their hands are not closed,

nor are they open still. They don’t insure.

Or their insurance policy is more..

more personal in nature than just writ-

ten words which are more letters, not to/ for

love’s own communications -  which just “fit”.

Not in that epileptic, seizing way,

but as two hands with fingers interposed

might each hold one another, and display

the kind of trust relating love’s repose.

But also love’s hard work, to try to please,

to serve the other in ways that are true.

To keep their word, not as “con men” achieve

security by means of “wanting to”.

For actions must speak louder than our words.

The Language Centre in our brain is not 

writ in our mother’s tongue, though each babe heard

some of it before birth and all they got

(which starts to coalesce) with outside life.

But acts of faithful love, with in’s & out’s,

the comings and the goings of a wife

and husband who will listen not just shout

something to make the other  understand.

And if a babe is blessed to them, the same

stuff which glues them, can even when unplanned

by them, then bring to birth a name.

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*   For more tasty "onion-rings" on the secret, see all of Mark 4, 

especially Mark’s two matching stories: of four “soil types” (Mark 4:1-9); & of the people they metaphorically stand for (Mark 4:14-20)..

and then the middle bit which is the “meat in the sandwich” (Mark 4:10-13), 

& also its “partnering pair” (Mark 4:21-25).

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