Love-Love

The score signifies the start
First impressions are indicative and evocative
Strong servers set up strict schemes
As first dates demand dapper dispositions

Each player like each partner carves and carries a clean slate
No points purports a perfect score
An unmarked game gives gumption to fresh foes
As past slip-ups seem slight to single sweethearts

Tender tosses and telling touches are interwoven
Polished, potent and powerful pats propagate
In tennis and in life love lingers and latches on
Hanging on every word or every serve

It looks like laconic love
But in time, a longer lasting passion prevails

Parting points: One of the best love songs: “Here and Now” by the late Luther Vandross