(love)the overused word that doesn't mean the word

love keeps you steady
it tests you
make certain it will test you

how silly of you
if it is you
to try and date love

make a temporary statement and call it love

for it requires all of you

all ten toes
each of your ten fingers
one nose
both eyes
even that brain inside your skull

no fleeting passion
no flighty moodswing
away passing emotion
forsake passing circumstance

don't even speak it's name in vein
for love is sacred
holy
look up its above


it takes more than you
it takes all of you
it requires more than you can give of you

death alas be it's alias
"do" dear fellow be it's armor bearer
"everything" be it's closest brother
and "long suffering" it's mother

to know love is to be loved
and to love is to never ever let go
even when met with eternity

dark encamped around thee
nothing left to cling to
hand in the hand of love's liberty
smiling in the face of catastrophy

with an air of certainty
you say
this I do all and I do mean ALL

for

you