The World’s Supply
The world’s supply of you is mine and though
I love to know that you were out and heard,
were seen by all the world, when you return
I kiss you welcome but make my heart grow cold,
thus freezing sense to quietly discern
if glory of the world has left a glow
that tells me in your secret soul you yearn
to be world’s captive and with bravado,
give over to the ever hungry Show.
Oh jealous eye and heart! Again I learn
to know how love returns beyond all measure,
and as the evening grows I see with pleasure
the only thing so rare there is but one,
sits playing scrabble with a youngest son.