Inevitable, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)

Oh Maya
Such delicate prose
As strong as titanium
You could fill the Palladium
Stanzas your medium
What stubborn avoidance
You state in defiance
“Refusal” to let your encore
Be your last breath
I would differ as to say
Another meeting of lips
When you speak of love
In some future not configured
It is inevitable
In spite of want
So deep no depth
Is to be found
That the heart
Always stops
(end)

This is an ode response poem to Maya Angelou’s poem “Refusal”

https://allpoetry.com/Refusal <—– By Maya Angelou.

It is that old desire to want that one last kiss, that one last hug. Unfortunately none of us live forever and such poems to me read bittersweet, even outside of romance when we are talking about family.