Two qualities in a poet
Who can makes another laugh and cry
Often means they are attached, so to say
In a very special way

Be it passion or be it pain
When the love link does remain
And through their poetry they can touch
Another deeply with their love as such

It boggles the mind and that's for sure
When one is sorely in need of a cure
For all the things that sorely ail
The love that binds will never fail

So such the depth of one's love for another
Can hold the ties of love forever
Passion and pain will rule the day
And at each other's feet doth lay

John Cornick
Halifax, Nova Scotia
May 14, 2016