Our love is smooth as porcelain
The surface where we dance
With hardly a rise, imperfection, or chip
Frictionless, we glide
***
Microscopy magnifies our strata
X-rays penetrate our surface
Explorations of details
Continue revealing ceramic smooth sheets
***
Our veneer is beautiful
But the structure is delicate
We can break at some point
Stress countervails strength
***
The deeper we love
The more layers we see
To reassure us until
Irregularities appear
***
Strength determined by how deep
Before the terrain gets bumpy
Love, strong, all the way down
Smooth layers until
***
Loves, unbreakable, are those deep indeed
Before the going gets rough
At the atomic scales where potholes
Are just the small things
***
Shelves are made to stack our plates
And what we have on them
The imperfections, the small things met,
We don't sweat, all the way to china
About the Creator
Gerard DiLeo
Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!
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My substrack at https://substack.com/@drdileo
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