Your Face and Your Feet

“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.” 
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

                                                                      Peter, Paul & Mary sing "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"

    In the song "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", the songwriter Ewan McColl describes that his love for Peggy Seeger  was there from the first moment he saw her face. This song goes on to say,  "He will love her until the end of time", that is, forever. This sweet song reminds us of Erich Fromm's quote above which states that  "love is a decision, a beginning of a promise to love someone forever."
    Another sweet poem about the other end of  the lover's body, is Pablo Neurda's  poem called "Your Feet", from his book The Captain's Verses.

Your Feet

When I cannot look at your face
I look at your feet.
Your feet of arched bone,
your hard little feet.
I know that they support you,
and that your sweet weight
rises upon them.
Your waist and your breasts,
the doubled purple
of your nipples,
the sockets of your eyes
that have just flown away,
your wide fruit mouth,
your red tresses,
my little tower.
But I love your feet
only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the wind and upon the waters,
until they found me. 

  ~Pablo Neruda

I think we neglect this anatomical part of our lover's body.
  This is what Neruda says in the most famous part of the poem:

        "But I love your feet, only because they walked upon the earth and upon

         the wind and upon the waters, until they found me."

Look again at your lover's feet. Are you not grateful that those feet walked upon this earth and stopped for awhile to be with you?