Every Day Love

Love is not romantic.

Real love lives
in the muddy ditch
of human passion.

Anger, jealousy,
words later regretted;
those are the true
facts of love
and marriage.

Forgiveness,
patience,
reassurances
of desirability,
apologies whispered
in the dark.

Love is proletariat.
no matter which
class it obtains.

Hard working,
ever abiding,
shown in touch
and in deed.

Love persists,
and grows
deep roots.

A family tree
is grown in
the hard sunshine
of  every day love.