Poetry from Italy # 5

Keeping Love

giant metal objects
stuck tight
on a bridge

actually not just on bridges
but Juliet’s house
and Cinque Terre too

Those are places in Italy
in case you didn’t know

all with those strange metal objects
some even have colors

what?
it’s for love

two names written on it
means they're suppose to be together forever?

it’s a promise?
it’s a wish?

locked together
forever
no matter what

Is that really what it’s about?
those silly things
that you place on your luagge
so your things don’t get stolen

It must work so that no other will steal your heart
for it already belongs to your lover

and endure
no matter what happens

such a romantic notion
to be locked in a love forever

but do they really think about it?
such a promise
such a wish

and what it really means.