The Ins and Outs of Love
Is the passion of loins or the merging of mind
More significant role found in Love if Love's real?
And does sex make its bed (a sad urge to survive
In some way when you die), more desires its genes thrive
Than it cares who gets screwed? Is this Love or a deal?
Does the Bible not say, "Love is patient, love's kind?"
Do two souls live as one, or do two demand three?
If one partner's not fertile, Love's exit is cool?
Will a bud freeze and wither if April brings snow?
On a day that turns cloudy, the flowers still grow?
If a heavy mist hints of rain, who but a fool
Would be sure of more drought and embrace Love's debris!
Love lives outside of seasons may turn but won't roam.
It's in faith that Love knows itself, stakes its beachhead,
Love is not about ownership, measured by rhyme.
And its Beauty when recognized lives 'out of time.'
'Out of time' for the living, even more, for the dead,
Love's relaxed and not lonely. Love knows that it's home!
Feel my hand on your shoulder; no warmth can bring pain
That's not just pain we've chosen. Is Love's touch a token?
When you love, and I know you love, where's Love's defeat?
When I love, and you know I love, Love is complete.
Love needs no consummation (for Truth lives unspoken)!
'In love?' 'Out?' Hurts to feel! Love! What more can one gain?
Brian Johnston
7th of July in 2019
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