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A numbering error after post 1336, i have corrected today at 1340

[image courtesy dVerse Poetry Pub]

“Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink nor slumber nor a roof against the rain

Edna St Vincent Millay’s poem “Love is not all.”

Maybe Just Maybe

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink 

Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain. 

Ah! but so puissant is need of it

 It must be something necessary

Neither food, rest, nor shelter

What is it then ?

Not sustenance, not time out, not abode

Then what is it?

Maybe some DNA particle, 

Which, under the microscope spells human.

Instinctively we know it ,

I believe it is, and is crucial

“Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink 

Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain.” 

Ah! but so puissant is need of it,

It is scripturally defined.

Maybe, just maybe, 

It is the driving force of humanity's existence.

Maybe all we need to understand is,

That love is, love matters.

© gillena cox 2025

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