Love is Earned

Real love takes time to blossom with nurturing care
It’s a garden of delights with blissful naivety being there
And as the days quickly pass and couples keep learning
With plenty of challenges and on and off yearning
It’s a stoplight throughout time of reds, ambers and greens
It’s mutually trusting each other sans hidden agendas and schemes
Red means to stop to face monsters, problems and woes
Sometimes terrifying odds but it’s simply how it goes
Amber means proceed with caution answering questions not known
Riding together finding solutions to challenges, some cut to the bone
And at last there is green with all systems set to go
Press the pedal to the floor with confidence you both know
And all through the stages of life lived well together
With shared love and matched hearts both grow forever
And heartfelt targets of earned love are hit without misses
Bullseyes made quite simple with mutual deep knowledge kisses