LOVE

I want to pay tribute, while in disguise;
a poem lamenting someone dead;
but since we know that no one dies;
this one’s for the living, instead.

Sometimes we pay grateful praise;
to others when they’re dead;
but, empty words can’t spirits raise;
so tell them; when

Most people like to avoid confrontation;
they consider it not worth their trouble;
mulling thoughts, after much deliberation;
so many issues, can often befuddle.

So, we often decide to just walk away;
most of these issues will never be gone;
and as we’re leaving, we turn back to say:

A law commands you to love your neighbor;
but exactly who might that be?
One might assume he’d be one in God’s favor;
one very much like me.

But we don’t know who’s in God’s favor;
and so, the question still stands;
we know so

Money’s the goal to which we’re driven;
its fruits we long to embrace;
ignoring the Love, our Master’s given;
we seek, with money, to replace.

Some would say, it’s not money we seek;
but those things that money can buy.
Such arguments aren’t at all

Daily, are children, wounded and slain;
and their fathers and mothers, too;
can we continue to ignore; and remain;
is there nothing left we can do?

There are times I just want to go away;
just give up; and fall on my sword;
but reality, still, has something to say;

I climbed life’s elusive mountain;
thinking that’s all there is;
all of life flowed from a fountain;
and all of it began as His.

Life flowed down from reality;
from Eden’s garden, above;
the lower garden was finality;
for life would return as Love.

I thought I

If my tears could constantly fall as rain;
flooding and drowning all sorrows below;
soothing and comforting all in pain;
leaving nothing but Love, left to flow.

If only I could love without thought;
not expecting any love in return;
mindful, of what such Love brought;
discovering, what He sent

A father loves his daughters and sons;
very different from anyone else;
we’re filled with love for each one;
for they are each a part of ourself.

Anything their actions may amount to;
we’ll not, to anger,  be driven;
no matter whatever they ever do;
eventually, they’ll