I can see love

I can see love

I know that love is alive and well I

 can see love everywhere but love 

just for some reason unknown 

cannot ever see me. 

I do not understand why am I not 

here for love to see and if that is

 the case than where the hell am 

I at and where am I supposed be?

I see love every day at the old 

folks home, like the couple in 

room number two zero two holding 

hands from different beds so that 

they will not die alone. 

I see love down at the city park 

where I see couple's kissing on 

blankets talking about this and 

that so you see I always see 

love but alas love never knows 

where I am at. 

I see love when the school bell 

rings when I saw Johnny give 

sally his high school ring, I saw

 love walking hand in hand just 

down the road with the new couple 

who just moved in newlyweds I 

was told, I hope love stays with 

them so they can be in love as 

they go through life together 

and grow old. 

I saw love just week ago at the 

grocery store on isle eleven 

I think it was when that man 

held his wife from slipping on 

that spilled can of baby corn 

kissing her on the neck as he 

walked behind covering where 

here pants had tore.

Yeah I see love alright for it is 

every I look and always in my 

sights but whenever I do then 

try to grab on to love and hold 

on tight it runs away and 

disappears like a broken 

string attached to a flying 

kite watching it sadly as it 

disappears slowly out of sight. 

What can I do so that love 

can find me am I invisible

to love at least that is what

 it seems, for my entire life 

I have seen love every single 

day and I have seen love 

every where I have been but 

love for some reason has 

never seen me so I wonder 

if it will see that am here out

in the open down on my 

knees for the whole world 

to see, as I pray to my God 

that love will finally find me 

someday. 

Poet Richard M Knittle Jr.

A Poet's Journey

Texas Poet Laureate Nominee 2016-2020