'I'll love you forever'

"I'll love you forever"                                                            timothy r gates, 7/27/2014

"I'll love you forever,"
we both declared,
well spent by amorous embraces,
our first intimacy
beyond our hands' imagination.
"Why, that's not true love.,
you were only in lust,"
no matter if somewhat true,
the same tell younger people,
"You're only in puppy love."
Perhaps people lost,
no longer knowing love,
people still claiming to know
what is distant at best,
maybe this is their
funeral dirge,
maybe trying to save others
from love's disappointments?
Love is love, even if
disenchanted
or incontinent by the allurement
Love is love, even if
lust bedded
or fantasy visualized, realized
Love is love, even if
a teen's infatuation
or at a hoary headed recline.
"I'll love you forever,"
whether a religious sentiment
or poetic refrain,
whether a country song
or hip-hop, r&b refrain,
children's nursery rhyme
or bedtime story's song,
a crying heart
or funeral hymn -
Love is still love.
Two six year olds,
gazing into each other's eyes,
offer,
"We're best friends forever."