Another poem about love
Love how can I describe you?
Poets endlessly found a piece of you
I’m one of a million blind mice
You are a colossal elephant
I feel you but do not know you
Let me measure every inch of you
Love is letting go of what I know
Letting a scar be the new normal
Letting the baby go to adolescence
Letting the roots sink deep to see the bud
Love is embracing what’s present
Watching the scab do its work
Watching without waiting for growth
Watching a bud unfurl to a blossom
Love doesn’t believe in the future
Reveling in closure, it doesn't ask what's next
Reveling growth, three in one come together
Reveling winter once crimson and gold
Love doesn't know the meaning of harm
It doesn’t create scars willingly
Nor baggage for others to carry
Nor believes in conceal and carry
Love sometimes harms oneself
It protects those it loves without arms
It protects even if it self-hates
Like a mother sheltering loved ones
Love patiently waits for love to return
It waits for new cuts with patience
It hopes for blocked numbers to be released
Welcomes seeds of its grandchildren
Love will kill your ego if you let it
Bringing death to your selfish folly
Letting the dagger enter your breast
Love will hold your hand while you let go
Love is acceptance of your flaws
Embracing the cancer in your soul
Knowing our children are not ours
It sees the best of you like a newborn
Love bears all things great and small
Love believes what you cannot embrace
Love hopes that in time you'll hope too
Love endures every measurement
Love is not unconditional
It needs air and a body to inhabit
Love nails itself on the cross
Love knows when it's supper
When the elephant offers some cheese
Let's hope the mice see love wholely
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
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