Agape Love
conditioned since birth, to pursue interests self-serving
consciousness soon hypnotised amidst myriad desires
head and heart misaligned, fierce rivals for attention
delusion that we are only mind body doomed to die
causing fearful anxiety, objects of desire vanishing
awareness thus choosing to turn inwards in silence
whereupon stillness ushering soft tender touch of love
felt as bliss currents within form osmotically percolating
cascading waves of benign energy divine cleansing form
conscience telepathically whispering voice of clear truth
cosmic inspiration thus enabling a gradual fulcrum shift
translated in thought, word and deed, as devout prayer
moment to moment, all moments in silence entwined
healing our soul, now reflecting Gods love and light
vibrant presence in childlike trust melding with the joy
imbibing benedictions as and when upon soul bestowed
time itself yielding to unflinching courage and resolve
ego urges vaporised in an ocean of vast emptiness
vivified by the passionate, warm endearing embrace
of Gods ineffable love wondrous leaving us thus agape
as veils of delusion drop away layer by layer to reveal
love alone real, pulsating within the heart in renewal
from where the self strayed, having fallen from grace
prodigal son reunited with joyous heart, our true home
18-April-2021
Agape poetry contest
Sponsor: Regina McIntosh
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