I wrote this when I was 16, in love for the first time and just not understanding of the ways of the world, of suffering and strife. It made me feel like I was being spoken to by some thing beyond me and that it was a lesson to remember. So I give these words to you. May they fill you with the hope and joyous sense of wonder I found myself paralyzed with as a teenager when I reread it nearly nightly.
Before
God and myself, I tell my story
Before
my heart and my soul, I give leeway
Before
this earth and it’s creatures, I hold court
I request a boon, a favor if you must
I
ask only for forgiveness because it is necessary
I
request love because it has all we have lost
In
love there is faith, beautiful, glorious, blind faith
In
love there is hope, a prayer for happiness beyond earthly confines
In
love there is tolerance, differences matter not in it’s face
In
love there is joy, an entity as elusive as wind, coming and going at it’s own
pleasure
In
love there is life, a gift we have forgotten to treat as such
In
love there is beauty undeniable to the point of ensuing blindness
In
love there is sorrow, without which the beauty does not exist
In
love there is the essence of hell tempered by the breath of heaven
In
love there is chaos, free as a bird, destructive as fear
In
love there is peace, what we truly crave
In
love is what I truly ask, don’t fear it’s gain, be terrified of it’s loss
So just be In Love.
