Discoveries of the Day...or Thursday Thoughts~

The heart is an ocean

On which tempests move

The deeper the hurt

The deeper the love

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Why do we hurt those

We most dearly love

And those we love dearly hurt us?

Well, I suppose

It must be because

Pain is the flip-side of love

If we didn’t care

Then love would not hurt

Its worth would compare

To a handful of dirt

But when we love deeply

The joy it imparts

Threads itself painfully

Through the core of our hearts

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The difference between pain in love

And just simply pain

Is that pain in love

Is not suffered in vain

Though it may drive us

To thoughts of despair

Love’s pain folds perfectly

Into a prayer

True love’s pain

Will not destroy

It is the rain

Before the joy

 ***

Those things we desire

Come fully equipped

With excuses and justification

While unpleasing demands

Seem oddly stripped

Of time and obligation

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If pride goes before a fall

And a haughty spirit before destruction

Perhaps we all should crawl

And avoid needless attention

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If we looked into the mirror

Of His Word with honesty

We would love each other

With true humility

© Janet Martin