Poem for the week: "No Sadder Love"

No Sadder Love

Like a seed sown in fertile ground that

cannot grow without water and sun,

that’s the story of Far from Heaven, the

Hollywood movie of a 1950’s suburban

couple, “Mr. and Mrs. Magnatech,” apple

pie all the way, with a boy and girl and

split-level home in the best part of town,

and autumn leaves strewn on the ground

as the perfect couple’s black gardener

tends to their yard; but the golden couple’s

husband is gay and can no longer bear

to make love to his faithful wife, and she

has fallen for her widowed gardener, but

gay and interracial love is not permitted

by their culture, and with tears in my eyes

as the movie ended with the perfect wife

waving goodbye to her beautiful gardener,

I turned to the love of my life, my heaven

whose love I won by breaking convention,

and said to her, “There is no sadder love 
than the love that could have been.”