Read this poem I found. What is the message?

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What is the message of this poem from Internet--?
Feel free to explain it.


His love moans in tired thoughts more weary year by year
Weathered out like a rotting log--
(For this is how it may appear.)


Yet in a marriage strong and true
love sustains its invisible glue
Pure stone replaces the wood so dead--
Nearly as good as when they wed.
Old wood to rock and the rock remains
while his lonely love is all sweet pain
And so becomes a futile passion
Unreturned: gray and ashen.
 

Though likely it just means real love sustains the passing of time or some such crap. :D You know how it goes art is in the eye of whatever one wants to make out to be till someone changes the goal post.
 
I see it as young passionate love petrifies in an old love as solid as a rock. The passion may be futile but the love remains.
 
I see this as being about an old man who is reminiscing over having had a strong marriage for his lifetime but his wife dies before he does, leaving him with loneliness and a love that is now bittersweet because it's a true sustaining love, yet an unrequited love since she is gone.
 
I think he's talking about the love he had and has for a wife who's passed on and how that love continues and strengthens (wood petrifies to become rock) even though it is now unreturned. And the pain is his missing her.
 
Here is my interpretation. The bedrock of marriage remains, out of commitment, habit, whatever, but the woman no longer loves her husband. Instead he is sentenced to solitary confinement in his heart. Oooh. Now I am choked up. Athos, do you write poetry?
 
Lara said:
I see this as being about an old man who is reminiscing over having had a strong marriage for his lifetime but his wife dies before he does, leaving him with loneliness and a love that is now bittersweet because it's a true sustaining love, yet an unrequited love since she is gone.
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I agree. That's what I found, but I'm living that right now, so I may be just finding what I want to find.
I thought Shalimar's interpretation might be correct as well.
I am curious about Athos' motive in posing the question.
 
Athos said:
What is the message of this poem from Internet--?
Feel free to explain it.


His love moans in tired thoughts more weary year by year
Weathered out like a rotting log--
(For this is how it may appear.)


Yet in a marriage strong and true = seeker and target goal

love sustains its invisible glue = pick a vice

Pure stone replaces the wood so dead-- = something stronger replaces what was once there before

Nearly as good as when they wed. = ditto

Old wood to rock and the rock remains =that something stronger stands the test of time I'll say ditto again

while his lonely love is all sweet pain = could be a woman, could be country, could be a dog, a promotion, gold hidden at the bottom of the ocean

And so becomes a futile passion = never gonna get it

Unreturned: gray and ashen.= All that frekin effort for naught returns frekin wasted time I could have had a V8
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My work is done, prize please. :cheerful:
 
It sounds like a someone filled with an overwhelming emptiness and pain because of the loss of a spouse.
 
Debby said:
You're prize is going to have to be our love for you April. We're too old and pure for that diamond tiara that you've been hoping for, so hugs and loves:love_heart:!
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That's the best prize I could ever hope for. :) Hugs and much love back at ya. :bighug:
 

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