[RCL]

Sense and Sentimentalism

My fiancée seemed much too sentimental
about our love: too weepy, dreamy, needy.
And I, emotions numb, put off her entreaty
that I consider sentimental ’s -mental!

Did! Found roots of senti-ence, elemental
feeling, too. I thought: let each half help me
comprehend her sentimentality,
for its truth (etym) is incremental.

So, while I labored to renew my love,
memories of hers brought back warm feeling,
and I confess: A convert, I’m not above
belief that we are truest when commingling—

mating freshened sentience with the mental
in joyous love thoroughly sentimental.

Last line was:
in joyous love that’s fully sentimental.

I’m just silly over the final puns on the pun masters Thoreau and Joyce. (Now, where are my meds?)

Note
The prefix “etym” of “etymology” is derived from the Greek word “etymos”; it means “true”; so, “etym” can be interpreted as “truth” or “true meaning.”