For This Is Wisdom

Laurence Hope

Laurence Hope on poetry.com – this specific poem isn’t catalogued there

For this is Wisdom; to love, to live
To take what fate, or the Gods may give.

To ask no question, to make no prayer,
To kiss the lips and caress the hair,

Speed passion’s ebb as you greet its flow
To have, - to hold - and - in time, - let go!