The Difference

A birthday poem for Sam

love sets you on fire

but true love sticks around to stir the embers.

love drives you over plains and mountains

but true love brings you back, a family.

love is the lightning strike

but true love the toasted peanut butter, jelly and banana sandwich

you make to nourish the days i watch our sweet grandson sprout,

plus that look you get,

when i tell you all of these are metaphors.